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HISTORICAL SKETCH 

OF THE 

SAINT ANDREW’S SOCIETY, 

OF THE 

STATE OF NEW-YORK, 

WITH THE 

CONSTITUTION k A LIST OF OFFICERS k MEMBERS SINCE 1756. 


CENTENNIAL ORATION, 

BEFORE THE SOCIETY, 

ON THE 1st DECEMBER, 1856, 

By the Rev. JOHN THOMSON, D. D. 



NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT. 



Neto^orfc: 

JOHN W. AMERMAN, PRINTER, 
No. 60 William-street. 


1856. 











LIST OF OFFICERS 



OF THE 

Jnfcnto'a 

OF THE 



omtjr, 


STATE OF NEW-YORK, 

Elected at the Preparatory Meeting, Thursday, Nov. IS, 1856. 



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ADAM NOREIE, President. 

RAMSAY CROOKS, 1st Vice-President. 

JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON, 2d Vice-President. 


ALEXANDER McKENZIE, 
WILLIAM PATON, 
THOMAS FRASER, 
ROBERT GORDON, 

JAMES T. SOUTTER, 
MONCRIEF MITCHELL, 


- Managers. 


ROBERT IIYSLOP, Treasurer. 

ROBERT B. CAMPBELL, Secretary. 
ROBERT DINWIDDIE, Assistant Secretary. 
ALEXANDER ELDER, M. D., Physician. 


REV. DR. JOHN N. McLEOD,) 

REV. DR. JOHN THOMSON, j UrAPLAINS ' 


COMMITTEES. 


ROBERT McCOSKRY, 1 

WILLIAM WHITEWRIGHT, I 
THOMAS H. FAILE, 

SAMUEL COCHRAN, J 


Standing Committee. 


JAMES B. JOHNSTON, 
ROBERT L. STUART, 
ROBERT L. KENNEDY, 
JOHN T. AGNEW, 
GEORGE CRUICKSHANK 


1 

- Committee on Accounts. 


JAMES W. MAITLAND, | 
ALEXANDER STUART, j' 


Committee of Instalment. 


^ Sept, 
Gar 23 00 









HISTORICAL SKETCH 


OF THE 


SAINT ANDREW’S SOCIETY, 


OF TOE 


STATE OF NEW-YORK. 


The New-York Saint Andrew’s Society was in¬ 
stituted in 1756. On the nineteenth day of Novem¬ 
ber, in that year, a number of gentlemen, natives 
of Scotland and of Scottish descent, met together 
and agreed to form themselves into a Society for 
charitable purposes. They adopted a Constitution, 
modelled by that of a similar Society in Philadel¬ 
phia, and elected the following Members to serve, 
for the first year, as officers of the Institution: 


Philip Livingston, President. 

Dr. Adam Thompson, Vice-President. 
Malcolm Campbell, Treasurer. 
Richard Morris, Secretary. 

David Johnston, 

Alexander Colden, 


Dr. James Murray, 

Dr. William Farquhar, 





4 saint Andrew’s society. 


During a period of nearly twenty years, the 
Quarterly and Anniversary Meetings of the Society 
were regularly held and punctually attended. The 
purposes for which it was established were found to 
be fully answered. A social and friendly inter¬ 
course among the natives of Scotland, their connex¬ 
ions and descendants, was promoted and maintained; 
hundreds of deserving objects were relieved by its 
bounty; implements and materials for domestic 
manufacture were furnished to the industrious poor, 
who were liberally paid for their labor. The needy 
derived assistance from the Managers, in money, 
medicines, clothing and fuel; and in some cases, a 
home was provided for the destitute, who were 
maintained by the Society. Its funds, and the 
number of its members (which included many of 
the “ great and the good ” of that day) progres¬ 
sively increased, until the commotions incident to 
the war of the Revolution, suspended the public 
meetings of the Society. Its records, from 1775 to 
1784, are wanting; and whatever capital it may 
have previously accumulated, was in all probability 
expended and distributed for benevolent purposes 
during the disastrous period alluded to. 

But, founded on a principle which “ never failetli,” 
the Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of 
Eew-York arose in all its original vigor, at the res¬ 
toration of peace. In 1784, its former Constitution 
was revised and amended, and from that period 
until the present day it has continued to sustain its 





HISTORICAL SKETCH. 5 


original character with the same spirit as at its first 
institution. 

It is at present composed of about two hundred 
and ten Resident Members, besides those who are 
considered as honorary. As a list of all who have 
belonged to the Society since its origin, and whose 
names are found on its records, will be interesting 
to many, such a list has been prepared, and is an¬ 
nexed, together with a list of its officers since its 
foundation in 1756. By a reference to these, we 
may observe that none of those friends who promoted 
its revival in 1784 are now with ns. 

The Constitution of 1784 underwent some altera¬ 
tions in 1787; and being found still imperfect, a 
Committee to examine into its defects, and to report 
such amendments as were thought to be necessary, 
was appointed in 1794, consisting of Robert Lenox, 
then Vice-President; Dr. James Tillary, Physician; 
Rev. John Bissett, Chaplain; Peter Jay Munro, 
Secretary; Dr. John Kemp; Dr. Benjamin Kissam, 
and Hay Stevenson. This Committee prepared and 
reported the twenty-three articles composing the 
present Constitution of the Society, which were 
unanimously approved. By the last article of this 
Constitution it cannot be altered but at the meeting 
preparatory to the Anniversary assembly, and when 
the President, or one of the Vice-Presidents, and at 
least fifty of the Resident Members, are present. 

By another of the regulations adopted, (article 
18th,) an equally numerous meeting of the Members 





6 saint Andrew’s society. 


is required for the disposal of any part of the 
Society’s invested funds. These, by the excellent 
management of its officers, aided by sundry be¬ 
quests, &c., have continued gradually to accumu¬ 
late, until the Society now possesses a permanent 
capital of $13,350, invested in securities which are 
worth, at the prices of the day, between $15,000 and 
$16,000. A part of the sum originated from invest¬ 
ments of money in the public stocks, at favorable 
periods, which were afterwards disposed of at an 
advanced price. Between the years 1787 and 1791 
the Society purchased bank stocks to the amount 
of $4,000, which were sold during the last mention¬ 
ed year for $6,000. It was contemplated at one 
time to erect a building for the accommodation of 
the Members, to be called the Saint Andrew’s Hall. 
A sum of money was collected for the purpose, an 
eligible site was chosen, and the lots now known as 
Nos. 10 and 12 Broad-street, and Nos. 8 and 10 
New-street were purchased in 1791 for $4,150. But 
it was afterwards deemed advisable to relinquish the 
undertaking, and the property was resold in 1794 for 
$6,750 ; the Society receiving the rents during the 
intermediate period. The sums subscribed having 
been returned to the contributors, the profits were 
added to the permanent capital. A number of the 
subscribers also generously relinquished their sub¬ 
scriptions to the Society for the benefit of the same 
fund. The following bequests have been left to the 
Society and added to the capital: in 1844, Joseph 










HISTORICAL SKETCH. 7 


Pitcairn, $200: in 1851, John Johnston, $1,000 ; in 
1853, Augustus Graham, $500; in 1856, William H. 
Maxwell, $200. The balance of this capital, except 
the trust fund to be mentioned, has gradually arisen 
from interest on the investments, from the fees of 
admission and from the yearly dues of members. 

The Dumfries and Galloway Society, founded in 
1803, “ for the relief of indigent natives of Dumfries¬ 
shire and Galloway and their children,” being re¬ 
duced in 1856 to five resident members, have trans¬ 
ferred their permanent fund, 40 shares of Union 
Bank stock, (at par, $2,000, value $2,300,) to this 
Society, to be held as the “Dumfries and Galloway 
Fund,” and administered as nearly as possible 
according to the objects of the original Society. 
This sum is included in the permanent capital. 

In the year 1835, a destructive lire took place in 
Fulton-street, which extended across Ann-street to 
the counting-rooms and warehouse of John Camp¬ 
bell, the Secretary, which were totally destroyed. 
The trunk containing all the records, papers and 
other property appertaining to the Secretary’s 
office, was unfortunately lost in that conflagration. 
An official communication of this disaster was 
made to the officers, at a meeting convened on the 
16th September, with an inventory, as far as could 
be ascertained, of the property which had been in 
the Secretary’s custody. It was then resolved, 

“ That the Managers take immediate measures to 
replace. the property of this Association, destroyed 








8 saint Andrew’s society. 


by the late fire, and that the Secretary shall procure 
a suitable book, in which shall be entered as a pre¬ 
face, and explanatory of the present proceedings, 
the communication he has just made, then the Con¬ 
stitution of the Society, and that the signatures of 
the Members be obtained to the same as far as 
practicable.” 

All these matters were attended to, and the losses 
replaced as far as practicable; but the destruction 
of the records has left many blanks in the Society’s 
history; while the loss of the original signatures to 
the Constitution has deprived them of an invaluable 
_ memento of many warm friends, who have now 
passed from the stage of life for ever. 

It is unnecessary here to recite particular cases 
of the relief which has been afforded by this Insti¬ 
tution, as all these are fully recorded in the books 
of the Managers, who were charged with the dis¬ 
tribution of the funds, or of the Almoner, upon 
whom it has since devolved. It is only the Man¬ 
agers, therefore, who can correctly estimate the 
number of Scottish poor in this city, and the extent 
of their misery; and upon these Almoners it falls 
most feelingly to regret that the funds of the Society 
do not allow them to give more liberal aid in the 
many distressing cases constantly brought to their 
notice. The amount of our donations to any indi¬ 
vidual, it will be recollected, is limited to the sum 
of fifteen dollars, in any one year ; but the number 
of applicants is now so great, that it is only in extra- 









HISTORICAL SKETCH. 


9 


ordinary cases that they can give even to the extent 
of ten dollars. 

The Managers, knowing and feeling this, were 
constrained to suggest two modes of increasing the 
income of the Society:—The one, directly , by ad¬ 
vancing the annual dues to five dollars, which is 
the rate of the other national benevolent institu¬ 
tions of our city ; and the other, prospectively , by 
bringing the Members more frequently together, 
and exciting thereby a more lively interest in our 
operations, and thus adding to our numbers. 

To accomplish the former object, it was proposed, | 
at the preparatory meeting on the 14th November, 
1839, that an alteration be made in the 19tli Article j 
of the Constitution, by increasing the annual dues | 
from $2 50 to $5. As no alteration can be made 
in the Constitution, except at a preparatory meeting ? 
when at least fifty Members shall be present, and as 
the contemplated alteration must be proposed at a 
previous meeting , this change could not be made 
for a year. In order, however, to ascertain the 
views and feelings of the Members, and to judge 
more correctly of the expediency of this measure, 
a resolution was passed, recommending that the pro¬ 
posed alteration of the annual dues to five dollars 
commence at once, and that the Secretary solicit 
accordingly from the Members the payment of the 
increased dues. This recommendation was most 
promptly responded to by the Members, who have 
so cheerfully and generally acquiesced in consider- 











10 


saint Andrew’s society. 


ing the annual dues as five dollars, that any action 
on the part of the Society to amend the Constitution 
has been deemed unnecessary. 

The other measure suggested for adding to our 
funds was to revive the Quarterly Meetings, as 
directed in the 5th Article of the Constitution, in 
order to exhibit to the Members the record of our 
distributions, and to show the precise manner in 
which our funds are expended. This can be done, 
neither at the preparatory nor Anniversary Meet¬ 
ings, the time being occupied in the stated business 
allotted to each of them, and consequently no oppor- 
I tunity is afforded the Managers to make such state* 

' ments. Should the foregoing suggestion be here¬ 
after adopted, and the attention of Members more 
[ frequently aroused, they will be more fully sensible 
that the original objects of the Society, “ to relieve 
the distressed,” have been faithfully kept in view 
to the present day, and that the amount contributed 
as annual dues has been most charitably and bene¬ 
ficially applied. This would produce a warmer 
and more lively interest on the part of every one, 
but particularly of many who seldom attend our 
meetings, and although ready to pay their dues, 
are little acquainted with our proceedings, or the 
manner in which the funds are expended. 

The duties of the Managers having become ex¬ 
ceedingly irksome and unpleasant, from the great 
extent of the city and the impracticability of visit¬ 
ing the numerous applicants in person, a long dis- 











HISTORICAL SKETCH. 11 


cussion took place at the preparatory meeting in 
1841, on the subject of these difficulties. A reso¬ 
lution was passed, empowering the Managers to 
employ an Almoner, whose duty it should be to 
visit and relieve the objects of the bounty of the 
Society, under the, superintendence of the Man¬ 
agers ; who were also empowered to pay the 
Almoner a salary of two hundred dollars per 
annum. This system has been found most bene¬ 
ficial. The present Almoner or visitor, Mr. John 
: Mackie, has performed the duties required of him 
in the most satisfactory manner. Visiting, as he 
does in person, every applicant and reporting to 
the Manager, all frauds are prevented, and the 
funds most judiciously appropriated. At the pre¬ 
paratory meeting in 1851, his salary was raised to 
$250, in consideration of his constantly increas¬ 
ing and arduous duties, and the very great fidelity 
with which they had been performed. 

The amounts disbursed by the Society for chari¬ 
table purposes since the year 1785, (the commence¬ 
ment of the records in the possession of the Society) 
exceed, in the aggregate, the sum of $72,000, and 
amount in the past year to over $2,100. The in¬ 
come of the Society the past year was $900 from dues 
and fees of admission, $1,180 from the income of the 
permanent capital, and $228 from other sources. 

A burial-place in the Cypress Hills Cemetery has 
been presented to the Societies of Saint George, 
Saint Andrew, Saint Patrick and Saint David, by 










12 saint Andrew’s society. 


William Miles, the President of the St. David’s 
Society. An appropriate iron railing has been 
placed round our portion of the same, at the ex¬ 
pense of a few of our members. 

It is now one hundred years since the Saint 
Andrew’s Society was founded, and its Centennial 
Anniversary has recently been celebrated with 
much spirit by the Members. An address was 
delivered by the Rev. John Thomson, D. D., one 
of the Chaplains of the Society, which is now pub¬ 
lished in connection with this sketch. The Annual 
Dinner was attended by two-thirds more Members 
than usual, and the accession of new Members was 
unequalled. 

It having been suggested that it would be highly 
appropriate to further signalize this epoch by a 
heartfelt demonstration to gladden the hearts of 
many of our poor beneficiaries, and give them 
good cause to look back with feelings of joy and 
gratitude on our Centennial Celebration, it was 
proposed to raise a special fwid, by subscription, 
for the relief of extreme cases of suffering, for 
which the usual sum allowed by the Society is 
insufficient. The sum of $1,300 was raised, as a 
Centennial Fund, for the above purpose. This 
fund is to be kept and disbursed entirely dis¬ 
tinct from the ordinary funds of the Society; and 
as it will last but a few years, it is strongly urged 
on succeeding Managers to keep up the fund by 
occasional efforts. 




HISTORICAL SKETCH. * 13 


Such is a brief account of the Saint Andrew’s 
Society of the State of New-York, taken from 
its records; and it is believed if its Members 
would communicate the situation and character 
of the Society to all. those who are entitled to 
join them by birth or descent, a new stimulus 
would be given to an Institution entirely, although 
silently, devoted to purposes of benevolence. 





CONSTITUTION 

OF THE 

SAINT ANDREW’S SOCIETY, 

OF THE 

STATE OF NEW-YORK. 


PREAMBLE. 

Every Institution calculated for the charitable 
relief and assistance of our fellow-creatures in want 
and distress, is certainly commendable ; such, it is 
hoped, The Saint Andrew’s Society of the State 
of New-York will he acknowledged by all who 
candidly peruse the subsequent Constitution. 

When people fall into misfortune and distress in 
any part of the world, remote from the place of 
their nativity, they are ever ready to apply for 
relief to those originally from the same country, on 
the supposition that they may possibly have con¬ 
nections by blood with some of them, or at least 
know something of their relations. For these rea¬ 
sons, the natives of Scotland , and those descended 
| of Scotch parentage, in the State of New-York, 
have formed themselves into a Charitable Society, 
the principal design of which is to raise and keep 
a sum of money in readiness for the above laudable 










CONSTITUTION. 


15 


purpose. If the application of this charity is con¬ 
fined, so is also the manner of collecting it; neither 
will it in the least prevent their acting up to the 
principles of universal charity on other occasions. 

In order to secure and perpetuate the advantages 
resulting from this Society to the natives of Scot¬ 
land, and their descendants in the State of New- 
York, the following Rules were unanimously ap¬ 
proved and established, as the Constitution by 
which the Society shall hereafter be governed. 

ARTICLE I. 

OF THE NAME AND SEAL OF TIIE SOCIETY. 

The name of this Society shall be as heretofore, 
The Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of Rew- 
York ; and the present seal shall be continued, 
viz., a seal with the arms of Scotland engraved 
thereon, with the motto, Nemo me imjpune lacessit. 

ARTICLE II. 

ON RESIDENT MEMBERS. 

]STone but Scotchmen, and the children and grand¬ 
children of a native of Scotland, shall be admitted 
as Resident Members of the Society: all Resident 
Members to be considered as natives of Scotland. 
When any person is to be proposed for admission 
as a Resident Member, the Member proposing shall 
give to the Secretary, at a meeting of the Society, 
a written notification thereof, mentioning the name 












16 saint Andrew’s society. 


of the candidate, his occupation, and the place of 
his nativity ; which notification shall be read ; and 
at the next meeting he may be elected. The elec¬ 
tion shall be by ballot; and the consent of three- 
fourths of the Members present shall be necessary 
to the admission of a candidate. None but Resi¬ 
dent Members shall be entitled to vote in the elec¬ 
tions or other business of the Society; and none 
shall be considered as Resident Members until they 
shall have paid the fee of admission, and subscribed 
the Constitution. 

ARTICLE in. 

OF HONORARY MEMBERS. 

Strangers, natives of Scotland, or children or 
grandchildren of a native of Scotland, or of a Resi¬ 
dent Member, may, with the consent of the officer 
highest in rank then in the city, be enrolled by the 
Board of Managers, hereafter mentioned, as Honor¬ 
ary Members; who, as well as the Resident Mem¬ 
bers, shall be entitled to a certificate of their ad¬ 
mission, authenticated with the seal of the Society, 
and signed by the President and Secretary. None 
shall be admitted as Honorary Members who reside 
in the city of New-York. 

ARTICLE IV. 

OF THE OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 

A President, two Yice-Presidents, six Managers, 
two Chaplains, a Physician, a Treasurer, a Secre- 




CONSTITUTION. 17 


tary and an Assistant Secretary, shall be annually 
chosen from among the Resident Members at the 
preparatory meeting hereafter mentioned; who shall 
be installed, and shall enter upon the duties of their 
respective offices on the festival of Saint Andrew 
next ensuing. The election shall be by ballot; and 
a plurality of votes shall decide. The President 
shall be first chosen, and duly announced to the 
meeting; and afterwards the rest of the officers 
shall be ballotted for together. The officers of the 
same description shall rank according to plurality 
of votes. 

ARTICLE y. 

OF THE STATED MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETT. 

The Society shall hold four Quarterly Meetings 
every year, viz., on the second Thursday in Feb¬ 
ruary, May, August and November; the last of 
which shall be called the Meeting preparatory to 
the Anniversary Assembly. The President, or, in 
his absence, the officer highest in rank who may be 
present, shall appoint the place of meeting in the 
city of New-York ; and the Secretary shall, at his 
desire, give due notice thereof to the Resident 
Members; and twenty-one shall be necessary to 
constitute a quorum. At all meetings, the names 
of the Members present shall be recorded. 







18 


SAINT ANDREW S SOCIETY. 


ARTICLE VI. 

m 

OF SPECIAL MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 

The President, or, in his absence, the officer 
highest in rank who may be in the city, shall, 
when any emergency occurs which, in his opinion, 
may render it expedient, or, upon application made 
for that purpose by the Board of Managers, or by 
the Standing Committee, hereafter mentioned, call 
a special meeting of the Society. The Secretary 
shall give due notice to the Resident Members ; 
twenty-one of whom shall be required to constitute 
a quorum. Special meetings shall be competent to 
the transaction of any business that may come before 
them, except where it is otherwise prescribed in this 
Constitution; but the consent of two-thirds of the 
Members present shall be necessary to constitute a 
vote ; and the yeas and nays on each question shall 
be recorded. 


ARTICLE VII. 

OF THE ANNIVERSARY ASSEMBLY. 

As the benevolent views of the Society will be 
greatly promoted by a social intercourse among the 
Members, the Society shall hold an Anniversary 
Assembly, and dine together, on Saint Andrew's 
day; and the Members shall on that day appear 
with a Saint Andrew's Cross , or a Thistle , dis¬ 
played on the left breast. The Society shall ad¬ 
journ at or before twelve o’clock at night. "When 







CONSTITUTION. 


19 


Saint Andrew's day happens on Sunday, the first 
day of December shall be observed as the festival. 

ARTICLE YIII. 

OF THE DUTY OF THE PRESIDENT. 

The President shall, when he is present, preside 
in all meetings of the Society, preserve order, put 
the question, and declare the decision. Tie shall 
call a special meeting of the Society when he shall 
judge it proper, or when applied to for that purpose 
by the Board of Managers, or the Standing Com¬ 
mittee, hereafter mentioned; and he shall appoint 
the place of all meetings. He shall likewise sign 
all orders on the Treasurer from the Board of 
Managers. 

ARTICLE IX. 

OF THE DUTY OF THE VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

The duties specified in the foregoing Article shall, 
in the absence of the President, devolve on the first 
Vice-President, and in the absence of both, on the 
second Vice-President; only that in regard to sign¬ 
ing orders on the Treasurer, each shall have equal 
powers with the President. 

ARTICLE X. 

OF THE DUTY OF THE MANAGERS. 

The Managers shall constitute a Board for dis¬ 
pensing the Society’s bounty, agreeably to the 






20 


saint Andrew’s society. 


regulations and restrictions j>rescribed in this Con¬ 
stitution, or by the laws and resolves of the Society. 
And for this purpose they shall meet at least once a 
month in summer, and twice a month in winter; 
and four shall be necessary to form a quorum. At 
their meetings only they shall decide on the appli¬ 
cations of claimants; and if a majority of those 
present consent to grant relief, they shall recom¬ 
mend them to the President and Yice-Presidents, 
either of whom is authorized to draw on the Treas¬ 
urer for the sum specified in the recommendation of 
the Managers : Provided, that no more than fifteen 
dollars be given to any one person in one year, 
unless it be otherwise determined at a meeting of 
the Society: and provided, also, that the whole sum 
thus dispensed by the Managers and by the Society 
in one year do not exceed the revenue of the Society 
for that year, unless it be done agreeably to the mode 
specified in the eighteenth Article. And none shall 
be objects of the Society’s bounty but such Resident 
Members thereof as may become indigent, and poor 
natives of Scotland, and children and grandchildren 
of a native of Scotland, or of a Resident Member of 
the Society, unless it shall be otherwise determined 
at a meeting of the Society. The Managers shall 
likewise recommend to the attention of the Chap¬ 
lains and Physicians such persons as they suppose 
might be benefited by their assistance. At all 
meetings of the Society, they shall, under the 
direction of the presiding officer, preserve order 









CONSTITUTION. 


21 


and decorum, regulate the ceremonial, and attend 
to the collection and payment of the expenses. 

ARTICLE XL 

OF THE DUTY OF THE CHAPLAINS. 

The Chaplains shall perform the religious duties 
customary at the meetings of the Society, and shall, 
by their counsel and advice, promote harmony and 
good will among the Members. They shall also visit 
such sick and distressed persons as may be recom¬ 
mended to their attention by the Board of Managers. 

ARTICLE XII. 

. OF THE DUTY OF THE PHYSICIAN. 

The Physician shall give his advice and assistance 
to such sick or maimed persons as may be recom¬ 
mended to his care by the Board of Managers. 

ARTICLE XIII. 

OF THE DUTY OF THE TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall have the custody of the 
money and other property of the Society. He 
shall, previously to his entering on the execution of 
his office, give bond, with sufficient surety, to the 
President^ Yice-Presidents and Secretary,'for double 
the amount of the Society’s stock, with condition 
that he shall render a just and true account thereof, 








22 


SAINT ANDREW S SOCIETY. 


with all improvements, and deliver the same, un¬ 
avoidable accidents excepted, to his successor in 
office. He shall keep regular accounts of his receipts 
and expenditures, in suitable books provided for 
that purpose. He shall, at each Quarterly Meeting, 
present an abstract of his accounts, stating the sum 
received and expended since the previous meeting, 
and likewise the whole amount received and ex¬ 
pended since the previous anniversary festival, and 
specifying the cash in hand, and what may become 
due before the next meeting, that the Society may, 
if they think proper, take order for the disposition 
thereof. He shall enter on his books each sum paid 
by him in consequence of the recommendation of the 
Board of Managers, the name of the President or 
Vice-President who signed the order, and the name 
of the person to whom the money was paid. 

ARTICLE XIV. 

OF THE DUTY OF THE SECRETARY. 

The Secretary shall have the custody of all the 
records and journals of the Society, and shall make 
a regular entry of all the proceedings at each meet¬ 
ing. He shall keep a list of the Members of the 
Society, and an account of the fees and dues that 
accrue, shall collect the same, and take receipts 
when he makes payment to the Treasurer. He 
shall summon the Kesident Members to all meetings 
directed in this Constitution, or called by the presid- 






CONSTITUTION. 


23 


ing officer. He shall erase from the list of Mem¬ 
bers the names of all such persons as by the terms of 
this Constitution shall have forfeited their title to 
membership, making report thereof at the next 
meeting. He shall appoint a Messenger to the So¬ 
ciety, for delivering notifications of the time and 
place of meetings, and a suitable person for collect¬ 
ing dues, under his direction, for whose fidelity he 
shall be responsible. He shall also have the custody 
of the seal and the badges of the Society. In the 
absence of the Secretary, the duties above specified 
shall devolve on the Assistant Secretary. 

ARTICLE XY. 

OF THE DEATH, RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL OF OFFICERS. 

In case of the death, resignation or removal of 
any of the officers during the year for which they 
were elected, the Society shall, at the next meeting, 
choose others in their room, to serve for the remain¬ 
ing part of the year. 

ARTICLE XVI. 

OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE. 

The Chaplains, the Physician, the Treasurer and 
the Secretary, together with four other Resident 
Members of the Society, not being officers, who 
shall be appointed in the same manner as the Com¬ 
mittee of Accounts hereafter mentioned, shall con- 







24 saint Andrew’s society. 


stitute a Standing Committee, whose duty shall be 
to pay attention to emigrants from Scotland, to 
inquire into their treatment during the passage, 
making report thereof to the Society, and into their 
circumstances and views, to assist them by their 
advice, and to recommend such of them as they 
may think proper to the Board of Managers for pe¬ 
cuniary relief. They shall likewise execute such 
business as may, from time to time, be committed 
to them by any law or resolve of the Society. They 
shall meet as often as the nature of their duties may 
require; and shall make report of their proceedings 
to the Society. 

ARTICLE XVII. 

, OF THE COMMITTEE OF ACCOUNTS AND THE COMMITTEE OF INSTALMENT. 

A Committee of Accounts, consisting of five Mem¬ 
bers, not being officers, shall be appointed annually 
at the preparatory meeting ; whose duty it shall be 
to examine the books and accounts of the Treasurer 
and Secretary, and to make report to the Society on 
Saint Andrew's day ensuing. At the same meeting, 
a Committee of two Members shall be appointed, 
who shall, on the Anniversary festival, present and 
instal the officers elected for the ensuing year. 
These Committees, and all special Committees, 
shall be nominated by the presiding officer, and 
appointed by vote of the Society. 










CONSTITUTION. 2 ^ 

ARTICLE XVIII. j 

OF THE KU.VDS OK THE SOCIETY. 

The funds of the Society shall be improved to 
the best advantage ; therefore, if at any time there 
should be more money in the hands of the Treasurer j 
than the exigencies of the poor require, the same 
shall be loaned out at interest, or otherwise disposed 
of, as may be determined on by three-fourths of the 
j Members present at a stated meeting; but such meet¬ 
ing shall not be competent to the disposition or ap¬ 
propriation of any part of the Society’s stock pre¬ 
viously loaned out, or vested in public securities, or 
in real property, unless the President, or one of the 
Vice-Presidents, and at least fifty of the Resident 
Members, be present.* 


* The whole of the Capital Stock of the Society being invested 
in one institution, it occurred to some of the Members that circum¬ 
stances might, at some future time, make it expedient to sell the 
whole or part of this stock, and re-invest the same, either for better 
security or greater interest, in one or more other institutions. In 
order to place this power in the hands of a suitable and safe Com¬ 
mittee, to act in any emergency, the following resolution was passed 
unanimously at the preparatory meeting, held on Thursday, Novem¬ 
ber 9, 1831, there being upwards of fifty Resident Members present, 
as required by the 18th Article : 

Resolved, That the President, the two Vice-Presidents, the Treas¬ 
urer, the Secretary, and the First and Second Managers for the time 
being, be and hereby are constituted a Committee, to sell the whole 
or any portion of the stock of this Society, and re-in vest the same in 
other public securities, whenever they think the interests of the 
Society require it. 





















26 


saint Andrew’s society 


ARTICLE XIX. 

OF THE FEES AND DUES TO BE PAID TO THE SOCIETY. 

Resident Members shall, upon their election and 
subscribing the Constitution, pay a sum not less than 
twelve dollars, as the fee of admission, and shall 
contribute two dollars and fifty cents annually, to 
be paid on Saint Andrew's day; and Honorary 
Members shall, on their election, pay a sum not 
less than eight dollars. 

ARTICLE XX. 

OF DELINQUENCY IN PAYING DUES. 

All the present Members of the Society shall, ■ 
within six months after the ratification of this Con¬ 
stitution, pay up their arrearages of dues and sub¬ 
scribe the Constitution, otherwise they shall be 
considered as having forfeited their title to Mem¬ 
bership ; and in future, if any Member, unless he 
be in indigent circumstances, of which the Society 
shall judge, shall refuse or neglect to pay his dues 
for one year after they have accrued, provided he 
has been called upon by the Secretary or Collector, 
he shall be considered as having withdrawn himself 
from the Society, and the Secretary shall erase his 
name from the list of Members. 













CONSTITUTION. 


27 


ARTICLE XXI. 

OF RESIDENT MEMBERS WHO REMOVE OUT OF THE STATE. 

Resident Members who remove out of the State, 
may, upon application, have their names transferred 
from the list of Resident to that of Honorary Mem¬ 
bers; and shall not afterwards be considered as 
Resident Members, unless proposed and elected as 
in the first instance; but such persons, if re-elected, 
shall not be subject to the payment of the admis¬ 
sion fee. 


ARTICLE XXII. 

OF THE ORDER TO BE OBSERVED IN* MEETINGS. 

At each meeting of the Society, after the presiding 
officer shall have taken the chair, the minutes of the 
previous meeting shall be read by the Secretary. 
Decency and good order shall be observed by all 
the Members; and whoever offends in this respect 
shall be liable to be reprimanded by the presiding 
officer. 

ARTICLE XXIII. 

OF THE MODE OF ALTERING THE CONSTITUTION. 

The Constitution shall not be altered, except at a 
preparatory meeting, at which the President, or one 
of the Vice-Presidents, and not less than fifty Mem¬ 
bers are present—the consent of three-fourths of 
whom shall be necessary to ratify an amendment; 
and all proposed amendments shall be submitted 












28 


saint Andrew’s society. 


to the consideration of the Society at the previous 
meeting. 

The afore-written Constitution was adopted at a 
preparatory meeting of the Saint Andrew's Society 
of the State of New-York, held at the Tontine 
Coffee-House, at the City of New-York, on the 13th 
day of November, 1794. 


i 

j 

: 

i 














AN ACT TO INCORPORATE 

THE 

SAINT ANDREW’S SOCIETY, 

OF THE 

STATE OF NEW-YORK, 

PASSED APRIL 17.1S26. 


Whereas, the Members of a Society instituted for 
the relief of indigent natives of Scotland, and their 
descendants, have petitioned the Legislature for an 
act of incorporation, the better to enable them to 
obtain the objects of their association: Therefore, 
3. Be it enacted by the People of the State of 
New- York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
j That Robert Halliday, John Graham, John John¬ 
ston, John J. Palmer, Andrew S. Garr, and such 
| persons as now are or hereafter shall become Mem¬ 
bers . of the Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of 
New-York, shall be, and are hereby constituted 
and declared to be a body politic and corporate, 
in fact and in name, by the name of the “ Saint 
Andrew’s Society of the State of New-York,” 
and by that name they, and their successors, during 













30 


saint Andrew’s society. 


the existence of the said corporation, shall and may 
have perpetual succession, and shall in law be capa¬ 
ble of suing and being sued, pleading and being 
impleaded, answering and being answered unto, 
defending and being defended in all courts and 
places whatsoever, and that they and their succes¬ 
sors may have and use a common seal, and may 
change and alter the same from time to time at 
their pleasure; and also that, by their corporate 
name and in their corporate capacity, they and 
their successors may purchase, take, hold, use, 
enjoy, sell, lease and convey any estate, real or 
personal, for the use and benefit of the said cor¬ 
poration : Provided ’, That the annual income of 
such real and personal estate shall not at any time 
exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. 

2. And be it further enacted , That the said cor¬ 
poration shall have power to make such constitu¬ 
tion, by-laws and regulations as they shall judge 
proper, for the appointment of officers, for the ad¬ 
mission of new Members, for the government of the 
officers and Members thereof, for collecting annual 
contributions from the Members towards the funds 
thereof, for regulating the times and places of meet¬ 
ing of the said Society, for suspending or expelling 
such Members as shall neglect or refuse to comply 
with the by-laws or regulations, and for the man¬ 
aging and directing the property, affairs and con¬ 
cerns of the said Society : Provided , That such con¬ 
stitution, by-laws and regulations be not inconsistent 










ACT OF INCORPORATION. 


31 


with the laws or constitution of this State or of the 
United States: Provided further, That the said cor¬ 
poration shall not engage in any banking business, 
nor dispose of any of its funds for any other purpose 
than the relief of such Members of the said Society 
as may become indigent, and poor natives of Scot- t 
land, and children and grandchildren of a native of j 
Scotland, or of a Member of the said Society. 

3. And be it further enacted , That the present 
officers of the said Society shall hold their respec¬ 
tive offices until others shall be chosen in their 
place. 

4. And be it f urther enacted. That this act be and 
is hereby declared to be a public act, and that the 
same shall be construed in all courts and places 
benignly and favorably for every beneficial pur¬ 
pose therein intended, and that no misnomer of the 
said corporation in any deed, gift, grant, devise or 
other instrument of contract or conveyance, shall 
vitiate or defeat the same : Provided , The corpora¬ 
tion shall be sufficiently described to ascertain the 
intention of the parties. 

5. And be it further enacted , That the Legislature 
may at any time amend, alter, modify or repeal this 
act. 











A LIST OF THE OFFICERS 

OF THE 

SAINT ANDREW’S SOCIETY, 

OF THE 

STATE OF NEW-YORK. 


From 1756 to 1774. 


Assistants. 


1766. 

Philip Livingston, President. 
Adam Thomson, M. D., Y. Pres. 
Malcolm Campbell, Treasurer. 
David Johnston, 

Alexander Colden, 

James Murray, 

William Farquhar, 

Richard Morris, Secreta^. 

1757. 

Adam Thomson, M. D., President. 
William Farquhar, Y. President. 
Malcolm Campbell, Treasurer. 
David Johnston, "j 
Alexander Colden, 

James Murray, ^Assistant*. 

Peter Middleton, j 
Donald Morrison, Secretary. 


-Assistants. 


1758. , . 

John Morin Scott, President. 
Andrew Barclay, Vice-President. 
Malcolm Campbell, Treasurer. 
James Murray, 

Alexander Colden, 

David Johnston, 

Peter Middleton, ' 

Richard Morris, Secretary. 

1759. 

Andrew Barclay, President. 
Alexander Colden, Y. President. 
Malcolm Campbell, Treasurer. 
Peter Middleton, 

James Murray, 

Thomas Doughty, "Assistants. 
Thomas M’llworth, 

Richard Morris, Secretary. 








LIST OK OFFICKRS. 


3;* 


1760. 

Andrew Barclay, President. 
Alexander Colden, Y. President. 
Malcolm Campbell, Treasurer. 
Peter Middleton, 

James Murray, 

David Colden, ^slants. 
Donald Morrison, 

Richard Morris, Secretary. 


1761. 

Right Hon. William, Earl of 

Stirling, President. 

Alexander Colden, Y. President. 

David Shaw, Treasurer. 

Walter Rutherford, 

David Colden, I 

t", , , > Assistants. 

Peter Middleton, j 

Robert Law, 

David Milligan, Secretary. 


1762. 

Right Hon. William, Earl of Stir¬ 
ling, President. 

Alexander Colden, V. President. 

David Shaw, Treasurer. 

Walter Rutherford, ' 

James Law, . . 

, „ > Assistants. 

John Ross, 

Robert Kennedy, J 
David Milligan, Secretary. 


► Assistants. 


1763. 

Right Hon. William, Earl of Stir¬ 
ling, President 

Alexander Colden, Y. President. 
David Shaw, Treasurer. 

Walter Rutherford, 

Peter Middleton, 

John Alexander, 

David Colden, 

David Milligan, Secretary. 

1764. 

Alexander Colden, President. 

Peter Middleton, Yice-President. 

David Shaw, Treasurer. 

Walter Rutherford, ' 

David Colden, . 

T . .. . V Assistants. 

John Alexander, 

Donald Campbell, 

Thomas Wm. Moore, Secretary. 


1765. 

Alexander Colden, President. 
Peter Middleton, Yice-President. 
Thomas W. Moore, Treasurer. 
Walter Rutherford, 

John Alexander, I 

William M’Adam, j- Assistant*. 

Rev. Thom. Jackson, j 
William Malcolm, Secretary. 


2* 


























34 


SAINT ANDREW S SOCIETY. 


Assistants. 


1766. 

Walter Rutherford, President. 
William M’Adam, Vice-President. 
Thomas W. Moore, Treasurer. 
Donald M’Lean, 

Normand Tolmie, 

William Seton, 

Thomas Gordon, 

William Malcolm, Secretary. 


1767. 

Peter Middleton, President, 
William M’Adam, Vice-President. 
John Ramsay, Treas. and Sec'ry. 
Donald M’Lean, 

Normand Tolmie, 

William Seton, Assistants. 

Thomas Gordon, 


1768. 

Peter Middleton, President. 
William M’Adam, Vice-President. 
John Ramsay, Treas. and Sec'ry. 
Donald M’Lean, 'l 
Normand Tolmie, I 
William Seton, j- Assistants. 

Thomas Gordon, J 


1769.' 

Peter Middleton, President. 
William M’Adara, Vice-President. 
!john Ramsay, Treas. and Sec’ry. 
Donald M’Lean, 

Normand Tolmie, 

William Seton, 

Thomas Gordon, 


Assistants. 


1770. 

His Excel. Lord Dunmore, Pres. 
John Watts, Vice-President. 

John Ramsay, Treasurer. 
Archibald Currie, Secretary. 
Donald M’Lean, 

Normand Tolmie, 

William Seton, 

Thomas Gordon, 


- Assistants. 


1771. 

John Watts, President. 

William M’Adam, Vice-President. 
John Ramsay, Treas. and Sec’ry. 
Donald M’Lean, 

Normand Tolmie, 

William Seton, Ass,slant*. 

Thomas Gordon, 



















LIST OF OFFICERS. 


35 


1772. 

William M’Adam, President. 
David Johnston, Vice-President. 
Wm. Malcolm, Treas. and Sec’ry. 
Johnson Fairholme, 

Alex. M’Donald, 

Arch’d M’Lean, 

W. Buchanan, 


Assistants. 


1773. 

Right Hon. Lord Drummond, 
President 

David Johnston, Vice-President. 
Win. Malcolm, Treas. and Sec’ry. 
Rob. Livingston, Jr.,' 

Archd. M’Lean, 

Peter Middleton, 

Thomas W. Moore, 


-Assistants. 


1774. 

David Johnston, President 
William M’Adam, Vice-President 
Donald M’Lean, Treasurer. 
William Maxwell, 

John Ramsay, 

William Pagan, 

Peter Middleton, 

William Malcolm, Secretary. 


Assistants. 


From 1784 to 1858. 


1784. 

David Johnston, President. 

Robt. R. Livingston, V. President. 
David Currie, Treasurer. 

William Maxwell,' 

John Ramsay, 

James Saidler, 

George Douglas, 

James Scott, 

William Malcolm, 

Adam Gilchrist, Jr., Secretary. 


Assistants. 


1785. 

The Hon. Robt. R. Livingston, 
Chancellor of the State, Presi¬ 
dent 

Walter Rutherford, 1st Vice-Pres. 
William Malcolm, 2d do 
William Maxwell, Treasurer. 
Samuel Kerr, 

Wm. Shedden, 

David Michelson, 
j Thomas Lawrence, 

! James Saidler, 

| Hugh Henderson, 

Robert Lenox, Secretary. 


Assistants. 





























-- 


36 


SAINT ANDREW S SOCIETY. 




1786. 


The Hon. R. R. Livingston, Pres. 

Walter Rutherford, 1st Yiee-Pres. 

Gen. Wm. Malcolm, 2d do. 

William Maxwell, Treasurer. 

Rev. Dr. J. Mason, ) , . 

„ T , TT ., t Chaplains. 
Rev. Jas. Wilson, ) 

Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 

Samuel Kerr, 

James Scott, 

Robert Troup, 

Peter M’Dougall, 

Robert Bruce, 

John Young, 

Robert Lenox, Secretary. 


-Assistants. 


1787. 


The Hon. R. R. Livingston, Pres. 
Gen. Wm. Malcolm, 1st Vice-Pres. 
William Maxwell, 2d do. 


Dr. J Mason, l cl )ain3 . 

Rev. J. Wilson, ) 


Alexander Robertson, Treasurer. 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
Peter M’Dougall, 

Alex. J. Hamilton, 

John Murray, 

Wm. Blackburn, 

Alexander Hosack, 

Francis Panton, 

Robert Lenox, Secretary. 


Assistants. 


1788. 


The Hon. R. R. Livingston, Chan¬ 
cellor of the State, President. 
Wm. Maxwell, 1st Y. President. 
Samuel Kerr, 2d do. 

Dr. John Mason, Chaplain. 
Alexander Robertson, Treasurer. 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
Alexander Hosack,' 

Hay Stevenson, 

Alex. J. Hamilton, 

Brock. Livingston, 

Thos. Du l ie, 

Dr. John Kemp, 

Robert Lenox, Secretary. 


- Assistants. 


1789. 


The Hon. R. R. Livingston, Pres. 
Wm. Maxwell, 1st Vice-President. 
Wm. Shedden, 2d do. 

Rev. J. Mason, ) C1 Iaill3 . 
Rev. Mr. Monteitli, ) 

Alexander Robertson, Treasurer. 
Dr. J. Tillary, Physician. 

Hay Stevenson, 

Alex. J. Hamilton, 

Andrew Mitchell, 

William Wilson, 

James Renwick, 

John Turner, 

Robert Lenox, Secretary. 


-Managers. 































LIST OP OFFICERS. 


37 


1790. 

The Hon. R. R. Livingston, Pres. 
Wm. Maxwell, 1st Vice-President. 
Wm. Malcolm, 2d do. 

Dr. J. Mason, Chaplain. 

Dr. J. Tillary, Physician. 
Alexander Robertson, Treasurer. 
James Renwick, 

Andrew Mitchell, 

John Thomson, 

John Watts, 

James M’lntosh, 

Andrew Brown, 

Robert Lenox, Secretary. 


► Managers. 


1792. 

Walter Rutherford, President. 
James Renwick, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Robert Lenox, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. Mason, ) , . 

Rev. Mr. Monteith, ) 

Alexander Robertson, Treasurer. 
John Taylor, 

John Johnston, 

William Wilson, 

Thomas Allen, 

George Gosman. 

James Grant, 

James Scott, Secretary. 


-Managers. 


1791. 

The Hon. R. R. Livingston, Pres. 
Wm. Maxwell, 1st Vice-President. 
John Watts, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. Mason, ) ch 1>in , 
Rev. Mr. Monteith, J 
Alexander Robertson, Treasurer. 
George Turnbull, ") 

George Lindsey, I 
Robert Gilchrist, 

Robert Bruce, 

James Barron, 

John Taylor, J 
James Scott, Secretary. 


^ Managers. 


1793. 

Walter Rutherford, President. 
Philip Livingston, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Robert Lenox, 2d do. 
Rev. John Bissett, ) ch lains . 
Rev. Jno.M. Mason, ) 

Dr. Tillary, Physician. 

George Douglas, Jr., Treasurer. 
Hay Stevenson, 

Alex. J. Hamilton, 

William Wilson, 

William Henderson, 

James H. Maxwell, 

Henry Troup, 

Peter Jay Muuro. Secretary. 


Managers. 

























38 


SAINT ANDREW S SOCIETY. 


1794. 

Walter Rutherford, President. 
Robert Troup, 1st Yice-Pres. 
James Homer Maxwell, 2d do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, I C , mp , a ;, ls . 
Rev. John Bissett, ) 

Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
George Douglas, Jr., Treasurer. 
Hay Stevenson, 

Arch. Drummond, 

John Mo watt, Sen., 

Arch’d M’Lean, 

Robert Affleck, 

James M’lntosh, 

Peter Jay Munro, Secretary. 
John Scott, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


1796. 

Walter Rutherford, President. 

Robert Lenox, 1st Vice-President. 

James H. Maxwell, 2d do. 

Rev. J. M. Mason, ) ^ , . 

, „ ’ [• Chaplains. 

Rev. John Bissett, ) 

Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 

George Douglas, Jr., Treasurer. 

Peter Bruce, 'l 

John Thomson, 

John M’Gregor, 

John Turner, 

Davie Bethune, 

Andrew Brown, _ 

George Johnston, Secretary. 

John Munro, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


1796. 


1797 


Walter Rutherford, President. 
Robert Troup, 1st Vice-President. 
James Homer Maxwell, 2d do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, f cl |ain3 
Rev. John Bissett, ) 

Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
George Douglas, Jr., Treasurer. 
Archd. Drummond, 

Peter Bruce, 

James R. Smith, 

James Stuart, Managers. 

James Boyd, 

William Turnbull, 

Peter Jay Munro, Secretary. 
John Scott, Assistant do. 


Walter Rutherford, President. 
Peter M’Dougal, 1st Vice-Pres. 
George Turnbull, 2d. do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, > C1 Wns 
Rev. John Bissett, ) 

Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
George Douglas, Jr., Treasurer. 
John M’Gregor, 

Wm. Ren wick, 

James Stuart, 

John Knox, 

Alexander Thomson, 

Andrew D. Barclay, 

George Johnston, Secretary. 
John Munro, Assistant do. 


Managers. 























LIST OF OFFICERS. 


39 


Managers. 


1798. 

Robert Lenox, President. 

James Scott, 1st Vice-President. 
Hay Stevenson, 2d do. 
Rev.J.M. Mason, I c , lains . 
Rev. John Bissett, ) 

Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
George Douglas, Jr., Treasurer. 
John Currie, 

James Lenox, 

Andrew D. Barclay, 

Hector Scott, 

John Knox, 

Benjamin Gray, 

George Johnston, Secretary. 
John Munro, Assistant do. 


1799. 

Robert Lenox, President. 

James Scott, 1st Vice-President 
Archibald Gracie, 2d do. 

Rev. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. John Bissett, ) ia P ftlnS * 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Currie, 

William Wilson, 

John Taylor, 

David Aucliinvole, 

George Gosman, 

Alex. J. Hamilton, 

Samuel B. Malcolm, Secretary. 
Alexander S. Glass, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


Managers. 


1800. 

Robert Lenox, President. 

James Scott, 1st Vice-President. 
Archibald Gracie, 2d do. 

Rev. J. M. Mason, | 

Rev. Samuel Miller, f cha P lains - 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

David Auchinvole, ' 

John Taylor, 

William Wilson, 

James Stuart, ' 

Walter Mitchell, 

John Currie, 

Samuel B. Malcolm, Secretary. 
Alexander S. Glass, Assistant do. 


1801 

Robert Leuox, President 
James Scott, 1st Vice-President. 
Alexander J. Hamilton, 2d do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. Samuel Miller, [ Cha P lains - 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Currie, 

Walter Mitchell, 

James Stuart, 

Samuel Campbell, 

John Duffie, 

James Tyrie, 

Samuel B. Malcolm, Secretary. 
Alexander S. Glass, Assistant do. 


Managers. 






















40 


SAINT ANDREWS SOCIETY. 


1802. 

Robert Lenox, President. 

James Scott, 1st Vice-President 
Alexander J. Hamilton, 2d do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. Samuel Miller,J ia P ain8. 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Currie, 

Samuel Campbell, 

Andrew Mitchell, 

James Tyrie, 

Thos Stevenson, 

John Wilson, 

Samuel B. Malcolm, Secretary. 
Alexander S. Glass, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


1804. 

Robert Lenox, President 
James Scott, 1st Vice-President. 
Alexander J. Hamilton, 2d do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. Samuel Miller, f Cha P lai,,s - 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Currie, 

Thos. Stevenson, 

James Ronalds, 

John Lang, 
j John Hyslop, 

James R. Smith, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
John J. Palmer, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


1803. 

Robert Lenox, President 
James Scott, 1st Vice-President. 
Alexander J. Hamilton, 2d do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. Samuel Miller, j‘ cha P lain9 - 
Dr. J. Tillary, Physician. 

John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Currie, 

John Wilson, 

Thos. Stevenson, 

John Hyslop, 

William Maxwell, 

James Ronalds, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
James Palmer, Jr., Assistant do. 


■-Managers. 


1805. 

Robert Lenox, President. 

James Scott, 1st Vice-President. 
Alexander J. Hamilton, 2d do 
Rev. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. Samuel Miller, j Chaplains. 

Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Currie, 

William Maxwell, 

James Ronalds. 

John Graham, 

John Hyslop, 

James R. Smith, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
John J. Palmer, Assistant do. 


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anagers. 


1806. 

Robert Lenox, President 
James Scott, 1st Vice-President 
Alexander J. Hamilton, 2d do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. Samuel Miller, J- cha P lains - 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Currie, 

James Ronalds, 

John Ilyslop, 

William Maxwell, 

John Graham, 

James R. Smith, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
John J. Palmer, Assistant do. 


1807.; 

Robert Lenox, President 
James Scott, 1st Vice-President. 
Alexander J. Hamilton, 2d do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. Samuel Miller,) al 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Currie, I 
James Ronalds, 

John Hyslop, 

John Graham, h ana g ei8 * 
James R. Smith, 

James Stuart, J 
Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
John J. Palmer, Assistant do. 


ilains. 


Managers. 


1808.. 

Robert Lenox, President 
James Scott, 1st Vice-President 
Alexander J. Hamilton, 2d do. 
Rev. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. Samuel Miller, j ^ ia P aiu8 ' 
Dr. James Tillary, Physician.. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Currie, 

James Ronalds, 

John Hyslop, 

James Stuart, 

James R. Smith, 

Samuel Campbell, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
John J. Palmer, Assistant do. 


18t>9. 

Robert Lenox, President. 

George Turnbull, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Gilbert Robei’tson, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason,) • 

Rev. Dr. Sam’lMiller, f- Cha P lains 
Dr. H. M’Lean, Physician. 

John Thomson, Treasurer. 

James R. Smith, 

James Ronalds, 

John Hyslop, 

Samuel Campbell, 

James Stuart, 

William Stewart, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
George Laurie, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


















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1810. 

Robert Lenox, President. 

George Turnbull, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Gilbert Robertson, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason,) 

Rev. Dr. Sam’l Miller, j ainS * 

Dr. H. M’Lean, Physician. 

John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Hyslop, 

William Stewart, 

James Stuart, 

Samuel Campbell, 

James Ronalds, 

James R. Smith, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
George Laurie, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


1812. 

Robert Lenox, President. 

Gilbert Robertson, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Dr. James Tillary, 2d do. 
Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason,) . . 

Rev. Dr. Sam’l Miller, j ain8 ‘ 
Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 
Samuel Campbell, ' 

James Stuart, 

John Hyslop, 

John Graham, 

William Stewart, 

George Ironside, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
George Laurie, Assistant do. 


y Managers. 


1811. 

Robert Lenox, President. 

George Turnbull, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Gilbert Robertson, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason,) . 

Rev Dr. Sam’l Miller, \ ainS ‘ 
Dr. II. M Lean, Physician, 

John Thomson, Treasurer. 
Samuel Campbell, 

James Stuart, 

John Hyslop, 

James Ronalds, 

William Stewart, I 
John Graham, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
George Laurie, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


1813. 

Robert Lenox, President 
Dr. James Tillary, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Robert Troup, 2d do. 
Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason, Chaplain. 
Dr. II. M’Lean, Physician. 

John Thomson, Treasurer. 
Samuel Campbell, 

James Stuart, 

John Hyslop, 

William Wilson, 

George Ironside, 

Andrew S. Garr, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
Wm. Gerard, Assistant do. 


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1814. 

Dr. James Tillary, President. 
Robert Troup, 1st Vice-President. 
Dr. D. Hosack, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason ,) , . 

Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith J Cha P lal " 9 ' 
Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

James Stuart, 

John Hj^slop, 

Samuel Campbell 
William Wilson, 

Andrew S. Garr, 

Robert Hall id ay, 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
Wm. Gerard, Assistant do. 


)■ Managers. 


1816. 

Dr. James Tillary, President. 
Robert Halliday, 1st Vice-Pres. 
John Graham, 2d do. 
Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason, ). 
Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith, \ ia ^ allU * 
Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

John Hyslop, 

Anthony D. Duff, 

Alex. S. Glass, 

Gideon Pott, 

Peter Hattrick, 

James Boyd, Jr., 

Wm. Gerard, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


1815. 

Dr. James Tillary, President. 
Gilbert Robertson, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Robert Halliday, 2d do. 
Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason,) . 

Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith,{ Ch “ 1,lame - 
Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

James Stuart, 

John Hyslop, 

Andrew S. Garr, 

Samuel Campbell, * * ana S eis * 
Maxwell Trokes, 

Anthony D. Duff, > 

Alexander S. Glass, Secretary. 
Wm. Gerard, Assistant do. 


1817. 

Dr. James Tillary, President. 
Robert Halliday, 1st Vice-Pres. 
John Graham, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason,) __ . . 

Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith, i Cha P la,nS ' 
Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

Gideon Pott, 

Peter Hattrick, 

Alex. S. Glass, 

Anthony D. Duff, ^ Mana S ers - 
William Wilson, 

John Hyslop, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


























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1818. 

Archibald Gracie, President. 
Robert Halliday, 1st Vice-Pres. 
John Graham, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason,) , , . 

Kcv. Dr. Wm. Smith, $ Cha P ,a,n9 ' 
Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
John Thomson, Treasurer. 

Gideon Pott, 'j 
Peter Hattrick, I 
Alex. S. Glass, ! 

James Renwick, ^ Managers. 

James Boyd, Jr., 

William Wilson, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


1819. 

Archibald Gracie, President. 
Robert Halliday, 1st Vice-Pres. 
John Graham, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason,) . 

Rev. Dr. W. Smith, ] Cha P IamS - 
Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell, Treasurer. 
Alex. S. Glass, 

Peter Hattrick, j 

John Johnston, I 

William Stewart, )-Manage.-s. 
James Boyd, Jr., 

George Laurie, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


1820. 

Archibald Gracie, President. 
Robert Halliday, 1st Vice-Pres. 
John Graham, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. J. M. Mason, ) 

Rev. A. M’Clelland, ^ Cha P lain9 
Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell, Treasurer. 
Alex. S. Glass, 

Peter Hattrick, 

John Johnston, 

George Laurie, Managers. 
William Stewart, 

James Boyd, Jr., 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


1821. 

Archibald Gracie, President. 
John Graham, 1st Vice-President. 
Alexander S. Glass, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. Mason, ) 

Rev. A. M’Clelland, V Clla P la ? na - 
Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell, Treasurer. 
Peter Hattrick, 

George Laurie, 

John Johnston, 

James Boyd, Jr., 

William Stewart, 

Andrew Foster, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


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LIST OF OFFICERS. 


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Managers. 


1822. 

Archibald Gracie, President. 
John Graham, 1st Vice-President. 
Alexander S. Glass, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. M’Leod,) 

Rev. A. Stark, f Cl.aplai.is. 

Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell, Treasurer. 
Peter Hattrick, 

George Laurie, 

John Johnston, 

James Boyd, Jr., 

William Stewart, 

Andrew Foster, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


1823. 

Robert Halliday, President. 

John Graham, 1st Vice-President. 
John Johnston, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. M’Leod,) 

Rev. A. Stark, ^ha,»Ia,as. 

Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell. Treasurer. 
Peter Hattrick, 'j 
David S. Kennedy, 

James Boyd, Jr., 

David Hadden, 

James Hay, Jr., 

William Stewart, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


Managers. 


1824. 

Robert Halliday, President. 

John Graham, 1st Vice-President. 
John Johnston, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. M’Leod, > 

Rev. A. Stark. £ Chaplains. 

Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell, Treasurer. 
William Stewart, 

David Hadden, 

Peter Hattrick, 

James Boyd, Jr., 

James Hay, Jr., 

John Lang, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


1825. 

Robert Halliday, President. 

John Graham, 1st Vice-President. 
John Johnston, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. M’Leod ,) 

Rev! A. Stark, ^haplams. 

Dr. Hugh M’Lean, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell, Treasurer. 
John Laug, 'j 

James Boyd, Jr., 

Jame3 Hay, Jr., 

David Hadden, 

David S. Kennedy, 

William Stewart, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


► Managers. 

























SOCIETY. 


Managers. 


1826. 

Robert Halliday, President. 

John Graham, 1st Vice-President. 
John Johnston, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. M’Leod ,} 

Rev. A. Stark, ^haplams. 

Dr. A. Anderson, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell, Treasurer. 
Hugh Maxwell, 

Gideon Pott, 

James Boyd, Jr., 

William Stewart, 

James Haj% Jr., 

John Lang, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


1827. 

Robert Halliday, President. 

John Johnston, 1st Vice-Pres. 
David S. Kennedy, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. M’Leod, ) ch 
Rev. A. Stark, f 1 
Dr. A. Anderson, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell, Treasurer. 
Gideon Pott, 

James Boyd, Jr., 

Hugh Maxwell, I 

David Hadden, )-Managers. 

John M’Gregor, Jr., 

Robert Gracie, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


1828. 

John Graham, President. 

David Hadden, 1st V. President. 
Hugh Maxwell, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. M’Leod, ) ch uin9 
Rev. A. Stark, ) 

Dr. A. Anderson, Physician. 
Samuel Campbell, Treasurer. 
Hugh Auchincloss, 

Andrew Mitchell, j 
John M’Gregor, Jr., I 
Richard Irvin, Managers. 

Robert Dyson, 

James Auchincloss, 

John J. Palmer, Secretary. 

John Laurie, Assistant do. 


1829. 

John Graham, President. 

David Hadden, 1st V. President. 
Hugh Maxwell, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. M’Leod, ) . . 

Rev. A. Stark, \ Ch ^^ 

Dr. A. Anderson, Physician. 

John J. Palmer, Treasurer. 

John Gray, *) 

Richard Irvin, 

Robert Dyson, I 
Robert Gracie, j-Managers. 
Hugh Auchincloss, 

James Auchincloss, J 
John Campbell, Secretary. 

Rob. Gillespie, Jr., Assistant do. 
























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1830. 

John Graham, President. 

David Hadden, 1st V. President. 
Hugh Maxwell, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. M’Leod, ) . 

Rev. A. Stark, ) v 

Dr. J. B. Stevenson, Physician. 
John J. Palmer, Treasurer. 
Richard Irvin, 

Robert Dyson, 

John Gray, ,, 

W. II. Maxwell, 

Robert Hjslop, 

M. C. Paterson, 

John Campbell, Secretaiy. 

Rob. Gillespie, Jr., Assistant do. 


1832. 

David Hadden, President. 
Hugh Maxwell, 1st Viee-Pres. 
Gideon Pott, 2d do. 

Rev. Dr. A. M’Leod. ) * . 

Rev. Andrew Stark, ) 

Dr. J. B. Stevenson, Physician. 
John J. Palmer, Treasurer. 
Richard Irvin, 

Robert Ilyslop, 

John Gray, 

Andrew Mitchell, 

W. H. Maxwell, 

John Napier, 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Gillespie, Assistant do. 


Managers. 


1831. 

John Johnston, President. 

David Hadden, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Hugh Maxwell, 2d do. 
Eev.Dr.A.M’Leo.1, ) chapkins 
Rev. Andrew Stark, ) 

Dr. J. B. Stevenson, Physician. 
John J. Palmer, Treasurer. 
Richard Irvin, 'j 
Robert Hvslop, I 
John Gray, 

W. H. Maxwell, 

M. C. Paterson, 

Robert Dyson, 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Gillespie, Jr., Assistant do. 


Managers. 


1833. 

David Hadden, President. 

Hugh Maxwell, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Gideon Pott, 2d do. 

Rev. Andrew Stark,) ch loillf> . 
Dr. W. C. Brownlee, ) 1 

Dr. J. B. Stevenson, Physician. 
John J. Palmer, Treasurer. 

John Napier, "j 

Andrew Mitchell, 

Robert Dyson, 

W. II. Maxwell, 

James Auchincloss, 

W. Whitewright, 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Gillespie, Assistant do. 


► Managers. 


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1834. 

*. 

David Hadden, President. 

Hugh Maxwell, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Gideon Pott, 2d do. 

Rev. Andrew Stark, ) . . 

Dr. W.C. Brownlee J ClmplamS - 
Dr. J. B. Stevenson, Physician. 
John J. Palmer, Treasurer. 

W. H. Maxwell, 1 
Wm. Whitewright, 

John Napier, 

James Auchincloss, !> Mana g ers - 
William Scott, 

Alexander Knox, Jr., ^ 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Gillespie, Assistant do. 


1836. 

Hugh Maxwell, President. 
Richard Irvin, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Wm. H. Maxwell, 2d do. 

Rev. Andrew Stark, ) , . 

Rev.J.N.R'Leod, J c '> a P la »*®- 
Dr. J. B. Stevenson, Physician. 
John J. Palmer, Treasurer. 
Alexander Kevan, 'J 
John F. Mackie, I 
William Scott, 

Robt. L. Stuart, > 

Alexander 
Dunbar S. 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Gillespie, Assistant do. 


er Knox, 

3. Dyson, J 


1835. 

Hugh Maxwell, President. 

John Lang, 1st Vice-President 
Richard Irvin, 2d - do. 

Rev. Andrew Stark, 

Dr. W. C. Brownlee, ) 

Dr. J. B. Stevenson, Physician. 
John J. Palmer, Treasurer. 

John Gray, 

Wm. H. Maxwell, 

Alex. Knox, Jr., 

Wm. Scott, Managers. 

Win. White \vright. 

Alexander Kevan, 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Gillespie, Assistant do. 


1837. 

David Hadden, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Vice-Pres. 
David S. Kennedy 2d do. 

Rev. Andrew Stark, I ch . n& 
Rev. J. N. M’Leod, ) 

Dr. Alex. T. Watson, Physician. 
John.Gray, Treasurer. 

James Boyd, 

Robert Dyson, 

Robert Hyslop, 

Ramsay Crooks, 

David Maitland, I 
Andrew Mitchell, J 
John Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Gillespie, Assistant do. 


- Managers. 

















LIST OF OFFICERS. 


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Managers. 


1838. 

David Hadden, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
David S. Kennedy, 2d do. 

Rev. Andrew Stark, ) . 

Rev. J. N. M’Leod, f Cha P lams ’ 
Dr. Alex. T. Watson, Physician. 
John Gray, Treasurer. 

Robert Hyslop, 

James Boyd, 

David Maitland, 

Adam Horne, 

John F. Mackie. 

Alex. Knox, Jr., . 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Gillespie, Assistant do. 


1839. 

David Hadden, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Richard Irvin, 2d do. 

Rev. Andrew Stark, ) . . 

Rev. J. N. M’Leod, 

Dr. Alex. T. Watson, Physician. 
John Gray, Treasurer. 

Robert Hyslop, 

James Boyd, 

David Maitland, 

Adam Norrie, 

Alexander Knox, Jr., 

John F. Mackie, 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Gillespie, Assistant do. 


-Managers. 


1840. 

David S. Kennedy, President. 
John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
Richard Irvin, 2d do. 

Rev. Andrew Start,) chaplaina _ 
Rev. J. H. M’Leod, J ^ 

Dr. J. T. Ferguson, Physician. 
John Gray, Treasurer. 

John F. Mackie, 'J 
Godfrey Pattison, 

Robert Johnston, !. ManagerB . 
George Hart, j 

James Wotherspoon, 

John B. Fleming, J 
John Campbell, Secretary. 
William Stewart, Assistant do. 


1841. 

David S. Kennedy, President. 
John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Prea 
Richard Irvin, 2d do. 

Rev. Andrew Stark, 1 chaplaiDa 
Rev. J. N. M’Leod, ) r 
Dr. J. T. Ferguson, Physician. 
John Gray, Treasurer. 

John F. Mackie, 

George Hart, 

James Wotherspoon, J. Managcrs . 
Robert Johnston, 

Godfrey Pattison, 

Francis Brown, 

John Campbell, Secretary. 

James H. Palmer, Assistant do. 


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SAINT ANDREW'S SOCIETY. 


► Managers. 


1842. 

Richard Irvin, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Robert Hyslop, 2d do. 

Rev. Andrew Stark, ) . 

Eev.J.N.M’Leod, l 0 ^" 
Dr. J. T. Ferguson, Physician. 
John Gray, Treasurer. 

Francis Brown, 

Godfrey Pattison, 

Alex. McKenzie, 

John F. Mackie, 

James Wotherspoo] 

Robert Johnston, 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
Alexander Johnston, Assistant do. 


1843. 

Richard Irvin, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
Adam Norrie, 2d do. 
Godfrey Pattison, 

Alex McKenzie, 

James Wotherspoon, ! , r 
John F. Mackie, 

William A. Hadden, J 
John Pirnie, j 

Andrew Mitchell, Treasurer. 
John Campbell, Secretary. 
William Bruce, Assistant do. 

Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 
Rev. Andrew Stark, ) . . 

Eev.J.N. M’Leod, i Cha P lfuns - 


1844. 

Richard Irvin, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
Adam Norrie, 2d do. 
Godfrey Pattison, 

Alex. McKenzie, 

James Wotherspoon. l Managera . 
John F. Mackie, f 
William A. Hadden, 

John Pirnie, J 

Andrew Mitchell, Treasurer. 
John Campbell, Secretary. 
William Bruce, Assistant do. 

Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 
Rev. Andrew Stark.) 

Rev. J. N. M’Leod, ) F 


1845, 

Richard Irvin, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
Adam Nome, 2d do. 

Alex. McKenzie, 

James Wotherspoon, 

John F. Mackie, 

John Pirnie, 

W. Whitewright, Jr., 

W. H. Maxwell, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
William Bruce, Assistant do. 

Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 


}■ Managers. 


Rev. Andrew Stark, ) . 

>• Chaplains. 

Rev. J. N. M’Leod, ) r 










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1846. 

Richard Irvin, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Vice-Pres. 
Adam Norrie, 2d do. 

W. H. Maxwell, 

Alex. McKenzie, 

John F. Mackie, 

John Pirnie, Managers. 

W. White wright, Jr., 

James Wotherspoon, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 

John Campbell, Secretary. 
William Bruce, Assistant do. 

Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 

Rev. Andrew Stark, ) nu , . 

_ ’ V Chaplains. 

Rev. J. 1ST. M Leod, f F 


1847. 

Richard Irvin, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
Adam Korrie, 2d do. 

W. H. Maxwell, 

Alex. McKenzie, 

John F. Mackie, 

John Pirnie, 

W. White wright, Jr., 

Robert Cochran, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 

John Campbell, Secretary. 

John S. Maxwell, Assistant do. 
Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 

Rev. Dr. A. Stark, ) , . 

’ y Chaplains. 
Rev. J. N. M’Leod, ) ^ 


► Managers. 


- Managers. 


1848. 

Richard Irvin, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
Adam Korrie, 2d do. 

W. H. Maxwell, 

Alex. McKenzie, 

John F. Mackie, 

John Pirnie, 

W.Whitewright, Jr., 

Samuel Cochran, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 

John Campbell, Secretary. 

John S. Maxwell, Assistant do. 
Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 
Rev. Dr. A. Start, ) ch 
Rev. J. N. M’Leod, ) 1 


1849. 

Richard Irvin, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
Adam Korrie, 2d do. 

W. H. Maxwell, 

Alex. McKenzie, 

John F. Mackie, 

W.Whitewright, Jr., 

Samuel Cochran, 

William Brand, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 

John Campbell, Secretary. 

John S. Maxwell, Assistant do. 
Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 
Rev. J. N. M’Leod, 1 _ . . 

Rev. John Lillie, } Chaplina. 


Managers. 










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I860. 

Richard Irvin, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
Adam Norrie, 2d do. 

W. H. Maxwell, 

Alex. McKenzie, 

John F. Mackie, , Managcre . 
W.Whitewright, Jr., ' 6 

Samuel Cochran, 

William Brand, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 

John Campbell, Secretary. 

John S. Maxwell, Assistant do. 
Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 

Rev. J. N. M’Leod,) chaplains. 
Rev. John Lillie, ) 


1851. 

Adam Norrie, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yice-Pres. 
W. H. Maxwell, 2d do. 

Alex. McKenzie, 

W. Whitewright, Jr., 

Samuel Cochran, 

William Brand, 

John T. Johnston, 

William Paton, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 

John S. Maxwell, Secretary. 

R. B. Campbell, Assistant do. 

Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 

Rev. J. N. M’Leod, ) chaplains. 
Rev. John Lillie, ) 


Managers. 


1852. 

Adam Norrie, President. 

John J. Palmer, 1st Yioe-Pres. 

W. H. Maxwell, 2d do. 

Alex. McKenzie, 

W. Whitewright, Jr., 

Samuel Cochran, 

William Brand, 

John T. Johnston, 

William Paton, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 

John S. Maxwell, Secretary. 

R. B. Campbell, Assistant do. 

Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 
Rev. Dr. J. N. M’Leod, j 
Rev. John Thomson, 


Managers. 


>d, 

Q j- Chaplain 


1853. 

Adam Norrie, President. 

Wm. H. Maxwell, 1st Yice-Pres. 
James Hay, 2d do. 

Alex. McKenzie, 

W. Whitewright, Jr., 

Samuel Cochran, 

William Brand, 

John T. Johnston, 

William Paton, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 

Robert B. Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Dinwiddie, Assistant do. 
Dr. John T. Ferguson, Physician. 
Rev. Dr. J. N. M’Leod,) 

Rev. John Thomson, j Cha P lains - 


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► Managers. 


1854. 

Adam Norrie, President. 

Wm. H. Maxwell, 1st Yice-Pres. 
John T. Johnston, 2d do. 
Alex. McKenzie, 

W. White wright, Jr. : 

William Paton, 

Thomas Fraser, 

Alex. Stuart, 

James F. White, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 
Robert B. Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Dinwiddie, Assistant do. 
Dr. Alex. Elder, Physician. 

Kev. Dr. J. N. M’Leod,) ch kin3 . 
Rev. Dr. J. Thomson, \ 


1855. 

Adam Norrie, President. 

Wm. H. Maxwell, 1st Yice-Pres. 
John T. Johnston, 2d do. 
Alex. McKenzie, 

W. White wright, Jr., 

William Paton, 

Thomas Fraser, 

Alexander Stuart, 

Thomas Cochran, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 
Robert B. Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Dinwiddie, Assistant do. 
Alex. Elder, M. D., Physician. 
Rev.Dr.J.N. M’Leod, | chaplain3 
Rev. Dr. J. Thomson, j 


Managers. 


1856. 

Adam Norrie, President. 

Ramsay Crooks, 1st Yice-Pres. 
John T. Johnston, 2d do. 

Alex. McKenzie, 

William Paton, 

Thomas Fraser, 

Robert Gordon, 

James T. Soutter, 

Moncrieff Mitchell, 

Robert Hyslop, Treasurer. 
Robert B. Campbell, Secretary. 
Robert Dinwiddie, Assistant do. 
Alex. Elder, M. D., Physician. 
Rev. Dr. J. N. M’Leod, > cha laina 
Rev. Dr. J. Thomson ,) 


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OF 

THE 


SAINT ANDREW’S-SOCIETY, 


OF 

THE 


STATE 

OF NEW-YORK, 


WITH THE YEAR EACH 

MEMBER JOINED THE INSTITUTION. 

A. 


Ainslie, Robert, 

1805 



Adams, William, 

1806 

Alexander, John, 

1757 

Allen, Robert, 

1810 

Abercrombie, General, 

1758 

Anderson, Dr. Andrew, 

1818 

Adair, Dr. John, 

1759 

Anderson, Abel T., 

1820 

Aughston,-, 

U 

Auchincloss, James, 

1822 

Alexander, William, 

1762 

Anderson, David, 

1825 

Alexander, George, 

1764 

Anderson, Robert, 

1830 

Alexander, Cosmo, 

1767 

Anderson, Alex. G., 

1833 

Anderson, Dr. Andrew, 

U 

Alexander, John, 

1835 

Ailkins, Charles, 

1769 

Anderson, John, 

1838 

Anstruther, Captain, 

1770 

Agnew, John T., 

1842 

Allen, Thomas, 

1785 

Aitkin, John, 

1854 

Affleck, Robert, 

1786 

Adair, John, 

1856 

Aiken, Andrew, 

U 



Adamson, Alexander, 

1798 

TJ 


Auchincloss, Arthur, 

1802 

x>. 


Archibald, Thomas, 

1803 

Barclay, Henry, 

1756 

Anderson, Hugh, 

1804 

Barclay, Andrew, 

ii 

Auchincloss, Hugh, 

U 

Buchanan, G. J., 

it 


3* 







62 SAINT 

Andrew’s society. 


Brown, W. M., 

1757 

Buchan, Robert, 

1799 

Bailie, James, 

1759 

Bruce, William, 

1800 

Bruce, Dr. "William, 

1761 

Brodie, John, 

H 

Buchanan, Walter, 

1763 

Bigg, Hugh, 

“ 

Buchanan, Thomas, 

“ 

Baird, David, 

1801 

Bruce, Capt. Robert G., 

1765 

Boyd, James, Jr., 

1804 

Blair, Dr. Peter, 

ii 

Bryden, William, 

« 

Bellardie, Thomas, 

“ 

Brodie, William, 

1805 

Brown, Capt. John, 

1769 

Bruce, George, 

ft 

Buchanan, Capt. Walter, 

it 

Bryden, James, 

1808 

Barclay, Andrew D., 

1773 

Boston, John, 

(< 

Barclay, James, 

ii 

Boston, Robert, 

“ 

Barclay, Thomas, 

ii 

Bruce, Charles, 

1809 

Brown, William, 

1774 

Bryce, Archibald, 

1810 

Bruce, Robert, 

1784 

Bryce, William, 

1811 

Brown, Andrew, 

“ 

Bruce, Dr. Archibald, 

1814 

Brebner, James, 

1785 

Boyd, David L, 

1815 

Bond, George, 

1786 

Boyd, John L, 

1816 

Barclay, James, 

ii 

Bunbury, Abraham, 

1818 

Bruce, Peter, 

ii 

Bell, James L., 

1819 

Blackburn, William, 

it 

Brodie, James, 

1822 

Bowie, Daniel, 

it 

Black, William M., 

it 

Boyd, James, 

it 

Burns, William, 

1826 

Bayley, S. A. 

1788 

Breckenridge, Samuel, 

1827 

Barrow, James, 

it 

Butler, William, 


Buchanan, William, 

1790 

Barclay, George, 

it 

Brown, Alexander, 

ii 

Buchanan, Dr. Walter W., 

a 

Bisset, Rev. John, 

1792 

Bunbury, A., 

1828 

Buchanan, John, 

ii 

Bennett, James G., 

1831 

Bennie, John, 

ii 

Buckham, Andrew, 

1832 

Barclay, Andrew, 

1793 

Buckham, John, 

ii 

Brodie, William, 

1794 

Buchanan, James, 

1833 

Bruce, Wilson, 

it 

Boyd, William, 

1834 

Briggs, David, 

1795 

Brown, Francis, 

1835 

Bethune, Divie, 

it 

Bell, John L., 

a 

Bisset, James, 

1796 

Brander, James S., 

1839 

Best, William, 

1797 

Brodie, J. W., 

ii 






LIST 

OF MEMBERS. 

63 

Brodie, Alexander 0 ., 

1840 

Colden, David, 

1759 

Brown, Alexander Speirs, 

1841 

Campbell, Capt. John, 

1760 

Bruce, William, 

1842 

Cameron, Capt. Allen, 

it 

Brand, William, 

1843 

Campbell, Lieut. James, 

it 

Brodie, John, 

it 

Campbell, Capt. Alexander, 1761 

Beck, James, 

1845 

Campbell, Major John, 

it 

Beck, John, 

1846 

Campbell, George, 

“ 

Barbour, William, 

• tt 

Campbell, Daniel, 

“ 

Boyce, Gerard S., 

1847 

Chambers, James, 

tt 

Brown, J. C. Roosevelt, 

a 

Currie, Archibald, 

it 

Buchanan, Isaac, 

U 

Christie, Capt. Alexander, 

a 

Buchan, James, 

1849 

Campbell, Angus, 

1762 

Brand, James, 

1850 

Cochrane, Capt. - , 

a 

Beck, William J., 

ft 

Colden, Cadwallader, Jr., 

“ 

Bowie, John H., 

1853 

Campbell, Major Allan, 

it 

Bett, John, 

1854 

Campbell, Capt. Mungo, 

tt 

Brodie, Alexander 0 ., Jr., 

1855 

Campbell, Dr. Archibald, 

1765 

Brown, John T., 

1856 

Campbell, Capt. Archibald, 1767 

Baxter, Archibald, 

tf 

Campbell, Patrick, 

1769 

Brodie, George, 

u 

Campbell, John, 

it 

Brash, Rev. John, 

a 

Campbell, Dougall, 

1770 



Calderwood, Dr. - , 

1771 

C. 


Colden, Richard N., 

1772 



Cumming, John, 

1774 

Colden, Alexander, 

1756 

Currie, John, 

1784 

Campbell, Malcolm, 

“ 

Currie, David, 

i( 

Campbell, Donald, 

ft 

Christie, Jame3, 

ft 

Carre, Stair Campbell, 

if 

Cunningham, Dr. William, 

“ 

Campbell, James, 

1757 

Campbell, Malcolm, 

1785 

Cochrane, Gavin, 

if 

Cation, David, 

ft 

Christie, Thomas, 

tt 

Crookshanks, Benjamin, 

fi 

Campbell, Archibald, 

it 

Campbell, Samuel, 

it 

Campbell, Robert, 

ct 

Cochrane, Dr.-, 

it 

Campbell, John, 

a 

Campbell, David, 

1786 

Crawford, John, 

“ 

Corbett, John, 

“ 

Christie, James, 

1758 

Cock, William, 

« 

Clapham, Major James, 

1759 

Cunningham, Capt. Peter, 

it 







64 


saint Andrew’s society. 


Craig, James, 

Craigie, Dr.-, 

Cavan, John, 

Campbell, Robert, 

Chisholm, Capt-, 

Campbell, Capt. John, 
Christie, Dr. Thomas, 
Cumming, James G., 
Clow, Andrew, 

Cleland, George, 

Colden, Cadwallader, 
Colden, Alexander, 
Campbell, George 
Colden, Cadwallader D. 
Crawford, James, 
Cunningham, John D. 
Campbell, Archibald, 
Casie, James, 

Cargill, David, 

Clark, David, 
Cunningham, John, 
Cumming, Wm. B. 
Campbell, William, 
Campbell, Capt. Daniel, 
Cumming, William, 
Copeland, George, 
Campbell, Alexander, 
Cairns, William, 
Cruickshank, William, 
Coskry, Nathaniel, 
Cooper, Joseph C. 
Chapman, James, 
Crawford, James, 
Calder, William, 

Colden, David C. 

Clark, George, 

Carrick, Robert, 


1786 


lm 

1788 

ii 

1790 

1791 

ii 

1792 

ii 

1793 

1798 

1799 

1800 

1801 

1802 

ii 

ii 

ii 

ii 

1803 

ii 

1804 

1805 

1806 
ii 

1807 

1810 

1815 

1816 
ii 

1818 

1819 

1820 


Campbell, John, 1820 

Carrick, Alexander, 1821 

Campbell, John D. 1826 

Coskry, Samuel, 1830 

Cairnes, James, 

Cochran, Fergus, 

Cunningham, John, 1832 

Crooks, Ramsay, 1833 

Cochran, Francis S. “ 

Cameron, Dr. James, 1884 

Campbell, George W., “ 

Caldwell, Dr. Hugh, 1837 

Cochran, Robert, “ 

Cameron, James Watson, 1842 
Cochran, Samuel, 1843 

Coates, Dr. David, 1844 

Coates, Andrew, “ 

Cochran, Thomas, 1845 

Cameron, Dr. James, 1846 

Campbell, Robert B., 1850 

Cruickshank, George, “ 

Cochran, Charles P., 1851 

Carter, Peter, “ 

Crooks, Ramsay, Jr., 1852 


Cameron, Alexander J., “ 

Carter, Walter, “ 

Carnochan, John Murray, 1853 

Caldwell, James, “ 

Cochran, James B., “ 

Callender, James, “ 

Campbell, Judge Wm. W., “ 


Crerar, John, ** 

Crooks, Bernard, 1854 

Crooks, Sylvester, “ 

Crooks, William, 1855 

Currie, Gilbert E., 1856 


Campbell, Malcolm, 









LIST OF MEMBERS, 


65 


Craig, Robert, 

1856 

Duff, Anthony D., 

1806 

Cunningham, James, 

tt 

Davidson, David, 

1816 

Chesebrough, Robert A., 

ft 

Douglas, George, 

ft 

Cowan, James, 

ft 

Dalgliesh, Simon, 

1817 

Campbell, Rev. James K., 

ft 

Douglas, William, 

1819 



Dyson, Robert, 

1821 

D. 


Duncan, David, 

1826 



Denniston, George, 

1831 

Doughty, Thomas, 

1756 

Dyson, Dunbar S., 


Duncan, John, 

ft 

Duer, William, 

ft 

Drummond, James, 

tt 

Douglas, William, 

1833 

Duthie, James, 

ft 

Davie, James S., 

1840 

Dalzell, James, 

1757 

Duncan, James, 

1851 

Dalgleish, John, 

1758 

Dunham, Henry R., 

if 

Douglas, David, 

1761 

Dinwiddie, Robert, 

1852 

Dallas, Duncan, 

1762 

Dustan, John F., 

ft 

Drew, Capt. James, 

1764 

Duncan, Wm. Butler, 

1854 

Dunbar, William, 

1765 

Duncan, David, 

1856 

Drummond, Rt. Hon. Lord, 

1768 

Duncan, John P., 

ft 

Duncan, Richard, 

1774 

Duncan, Alex., 

tt 

Douglas, George, 

1784 

Davidson, William J., 

tt 

Durie, Thomas, 

ft 

Downie, Robert T., 


Darrah, John, 

1785 



Donnan, John, 

tt 



Dodds,-, 

1786 

E. 


Dean, Hugh, 

1790 



Duncan, James, 

1791 

Elliot, John, 

1757 

Drummond, Archibald, 

1792 

Elphinstone, Capt. James, 

1758 

Duffie, John, 

ft 

Elliot, Andrew, 

1764 

Deas, David, 

1793 

Elder, Capt. Robert, 

1769 

Drummond, Capt. James, 

1795 

Erskine, Robert, 

1773 

Donaldson, James, 

1801 

Ewen, Alexander, 

1792 

Dennistoun, Alexander, 

1805 

Eckford, Henry, 

1802 

Duncan, George, 

1806 

Eadie, Andrew, 

1849 

Donaldson, William, 

tt 

Elder, Dr. Alex., 

1854 

Donaldson, Robert, 

ft 

Edmiston, John, 

1855 

Douglas, J., 

ft 

Edwards, Alexander, 

1856 










66 


saint Andrew’s society. 


F. 


Fraser, James, 

1849 



France, James, 

1850 

Farqukar. Dr. William, 

1756 

Foster, J. P. Giraud, 

it 

Fraser, Simon, 

it 


Forbes, Charles, 

it 

G. 


Fullerton, Lieut. George, 

1757 


Fraser, Simon, Ensign, 

it 

Graham, Edward, 

1756 

Forbes, Lachlan, 

a 

Graham, Ennis, 

it 

Fraser, Col. S., 

a 

Graeme, Capt. Charles, 

1767 

Forrest, Capt. Robert, 

1761 

Grigg, Capt. John, 

it 

Fleming, David, 

1762 

Gordon, Thomas, 

1769 

Fairbolme, Johnston, 

1763 

Gammill, David, 

a 

Forbes, Alexander, 

a 

Glen, Governor, 

a 

French, John, 

1765 

Gordon, Capt Peter, 

1760 

Foy, Capt.,-, 

1770 

Grant, Michael, 

1762 

Frazier, Walter, 

1784 

Graham, Capt. John, 

ii 

Ferguson, Duncan, 

1786 

Gordon, Lieut. Andrew, 

ii 

Farquhar, James, 

it 

Grant, Capt Alexander, 

1765 

Ferguson, J., 

1787 

Gillon,-, 

1773 

Fraser, Donald, 

1788 

Grant, James, 

1784 

Farquharson, Lewis, 

' 1796 

Galbreath, David, 

ii 

Forsyth, John, 

1799 

Gillespie, Thomas, 

it 

Foster, Andrew, 

a 

Gilchrist, Dr. James, 

1785 

Forrest, James, 

1800 

Gourlay, Robert, 

ii 

Ferguson, Daniel, 

1802 

Gilchrist, Robert, 

1786 

Fenton, Peter, 

1803 

Grozart, John, 

ii 

Fairbairn, Francis, 

it 

Gray, Andrew, 

1787 

Forrest, Rev. Robert, 

1805 

Gosman, Robert, 

ii 

Fotkeringliame, Thomas, 

1806 

Gosman, George, 

a 

Ferrier, Capt. John, 

ii 

Gibson, James, 

1790 

Fraser, Alexander, 

1817 

Graham, John, 

1791 

Forrester, Dr. Peter, 

1825 

Gardner, Dr.-, 

1792 

Ferguson, John T., 

1834 

Galbreath, James, 

ii 

Fraser, Thomas, 

1841 

Gifford, Andrew, 

ii 

Finlay, John Beekman, 

1843 

Garr, Andrew, 

1793 

Faile, Thomas H., 

it 

Gracie, Archibald, 

1796 

Fraser, James F., 

1848 

Glass, Alexander S. 

1798 












LIST OF MEMBERS. 


67 


Gardner, Michael, 

1800 

Graham, John L., Jr., 

1846 

Gibson, Thomas, 

1801 

Gray, Dr. H. M., 

1846 

Gray, John, 

ii 

Graham, Benjamin, 

1847 

Gairn, David, 

ii 

Guild, Alexander, 

1849 

Greig, James, 

1802 

Gordon, Robert, 

1852 

Grozart, John, 

ii 

Gourlie, John EL, 

ii 

Gibson, William, 

1808 

Gillespie, Alexander, 

a 

Gillespie, Robert, 

ii 

Gow, Peter M. 

1856 

Graham, John, 

1804 

Gordon, Alex. M., 

ii 

Gilmour, John, 

ii 



Gillespie, George, 

ii 

H. 


Garr, Andrew S., 

1805 


Gifford, Alexander, 

1806 

Hay, William, 

1756 

Gosman, George W., 

1807 

Hunter, Walter, 

ii 

Gillespie, John D., 

a 

Haggart, William, 

1762 

Gordon, Peter, 

1808 

Hunter, Capt. John, 

1765 

Gerard, William, 

1810 

Hay, Sidney, 

1784 

Givan, John, 

1814 

Hosack, Alexander, 

“ 

Graham, Augustus, 

1817 

Hamilton, Alexander, 

ii 

Gracie, William, 

1818 

Henderson, Hugh, 

a 

Graham, Charles, 

a 

Hodge, Robert, 

“ 

Gracie, Robert, 

1820 

Hamilton, Alexander J., 

1766 

Gibson, William, 

1821 

Hardy, James, 

ii 

Gifford, James K, 

1825 

Hunter, William, Jr., 

ii 

Green way, Edward N., 

1826 

Hay, Thomas, 

1788 

Graham, Alexander, 

ii 

Hudswell, John, 

1789 

Gillespie, Robert, Jr., 

ii 

Henderson, William, 

“ 

Gamble, Col. John M., 

1827 

Hattrick, Peter, 

1790 

Gilchrist, John T., 

ii 

Hosack, Dr. David, 

1794 

Graham, John L., 

1829 

Hervey, John, 

1795 

Gordon, Archibald, 

ii 

Hyslop, John, 

1797 

Grant, James, 

ii 

Halliday, Robert, 

a 

Garr, Andrew, 

1830 

Hosie, Andrew, 

1799 

Graham, James L., 

1831 

Hastie, Henry, 

“ 

Gibson, John D., 

1834 

Hunter, Hamilton, 

1803 

Graham, Charles, Jr., 

1835 

Hamilton, Alexander J. C., 

1806 

Graham, David, 

1840 

Houston, Hugh, 

1807 










68 saint Andrew’s society. 


Hamilton, Richard D., 1810 

Henderson, David, “ 

Hadden, David, “ 

Hunter, William T., 1812 

Hamilton, James K., 1817 

Hyslop, Robert, 1818 

Hay, James, Jr., 1819 

Hutchison, Thomas, 1821 

Hamilton, James, “ 

Hamilton, James, 1822 

Hutchison, William, 1823 

Hyslop, Robert, 1824 

Hall, Alexander, 1825 

Hutton, Robert, “ 

Hosack, Dr. Alexander E., 1830 
Hadden, William A., 1832 

Hamilton, W. F., “ 

Hutton, John, 1834 

Henderson, David, 1837 

Hart, George, “ 

Halliday, Edward C., 1840 

H&lliday, Thomas A., 1843 

Hart, Robert Hope, “ 

Henry, Robert, “ 

Henry, William G., 1844 

Hutton, Alexander, 1847 

Henderson, David, 1848 

Hutton, Andrew, 1849 

Hay, Allan, “ 

Henry, John, “ 

Hall, Robert, 1850 

Hunter, Robert H., 1851 

Hadden, John A., 1852 

Hay, James, 1856 

Hay, Thomas, “ 


I. 


Innes, Joseph, 

1756 

Inglis, John, 

1785 

Ingles, James, 

1786 

Inderwick, Andrew, 

1788 

Ironside, George, 

1821 

Inglis, William, 

1824 

Irvin, Richard, 

1825 

Irving, Ebenezer, 

1826 

Irving, Pierre P., 

1828 

Irving, Theodore, 

1831 

Irving, Gabriel F., 

1833 


J. 


Johnston, David, 

1756 

Jackson, Thomas, 

1762 

Johnston, James, 

1787 

Jamieson, John, 

1788 

Johnston, Henry, 

1791 

Jarvis, Matthew, 

1793 

Johnston, James, 

1803 

Johnston, John, 

1811 

Jaffray, James, 

1825 

Jaffray, Robert, 

a 

Jackson, Daniel, 

1827 

Johnston, George, Jr., 

1835 

Johnston, Joseph, 

1836 

Johnston, Robert, 

1837 

Johnston, Alexander, 

1839 

Johnston, John Taylor, 

1841 

Johnston, James B., 

1845 

Jaffray, William, 

1849 

Just, John, 

1853 






LIST 

OF MEMBERS. 

69 

K. 


Livingston, Peter, 

1763 



Laidlaw, Rev. Mr., 

1765 

Kennedy, Robert, 

1756 

Livingston, Robert, Jr., 

1770 

Kidd, Capt. George, 

1764 

Lowther,-, 

1771 

Kennedy, Capt. Archibald, 1770 

Leslie, the Hon. Col., 

1772 

Kerr, Samuel, 

1784 

Livingston, P. V. V. B., Jr., 

1773 

Kissam, Dr. Benjamin, 

1785 

Livingston, Robert R., 

1784 

Kemp, Dr. John, 

1786 

Lenox, Robert, 

ii 

King, 'William, 

a 

Lowther, Tristram, 

a 

Knox, John, 

1793 

Livingston, Brockholst, 

ii 

King, David, 

1799 

Lawrence, Thomas, 

ii 

Kevan, Andrew, 

'1802 

Livingston, William, 

a 

Kennedy, David S., 

1807 

Livingston, Robert G., Jr., 

1785 

Kevan, William, 

1808 

Loudon, Samuel, 

ii 

Kennedy, James L., 

1822 

Lamb, Capt, James, 

1786 

Knox, Alexander, 

1826 

Livingston, William S., 

“ 

King, Aaron 0., 

1827 

Livingston, John R., 

ii 

Kevan, Samuel, 

ii 

Leitch, Archibald, 

1791 

Knox, Alexander, Jr., 

6C 

Lindsay, George, 

1797 

Kevan, Alexander, 

1830 

Lawrence, John MT>., 

1798 

Kermit, Robert, 

1836 

Lang, John, 

1799 

Kennedy, Robert L., 

1848 

Laurie, George, 

1803 

Kevan, William, Jr., 

ii 

Lang, Peter, 

1806 

Kemp, Henry, 

a 

Livingston, General H., 

1810 

Kevan, William, 

1851 

Laurie, John, 

ii 

Kennedy, James L., 

1854 

Livingston, John F., 

1813 

Kennedy, James, M. D., 

1856 

Lang, Robert TJ., 

1818 



Lamont, Patrick B., 

1819 

L. 


Lawson, James, 

1821 

Livingston, Philip, 

1756 

Lee, James, 

1822 

Livingston, William, 

“ 

Laing, William, 

1825 

Livingston, John, 

a 

Lockhart, David, 

a 

Louttit, James, 

a 

Laird, David, 

a 

Lock, John, 

1757 

Leggat, Walter, 

1827 

Livingston, James, 

“ 

Livingston, Schuyler, 

ii 

Law, John, 

1760 

Lang, John, Jr., 

1828 

Law, Robert, 

1761 

1 Logan, A. D., 

1829 













70 


SAINT ANDREW S SOCIETY. 


Laidlaw, John, 1833 

Leggett, William, 1834 

Lawrence, Alexander, 1836 

Liston, John K., 1838 

Leckie, John, “ 

•Lottimer, William, 1846 

Latou, Robert, 1847 

Lillie, William, 1849 

Lawson, William, 1860 

Lamont, Duncan, 1852 

Lawrence, Wm. Beach, Jr., 1854 
Ludlam, Henry, 1856 

M. 

Murray, Dr. James-, 1756 

Morris, Richard, “ 

Milligan, John, “ 

Miller, Thomas, “ 

M’Guson, John, “ 

.M’Alpine, Coll, 

Morison, Donald, “ 

Middleton, Dr. Peter, “ 

M’Queen, John, “ 

M’Lean, Allan, “ 

M’Lean, Alexander, 1757 

M’Elworth, Thomas, “ 

Munro, John, “ 

Mattheson, Kenneth, “ 

MTntosh, George, “ 

M’Bean, Lieut Alexander, “ 
Mackay, Francis, “ 

M’Kie, John, 

Milligan, David, “ 

Morris, Lewis, 1758 

Mercer, Robert, 1759 

M’Leod, Lieut. Normand, 


Mill, Lieut. David, 1759 

M’Donald, Capt. John, Jr., “ 
M’Donald, Capt. Ronald, “ 

M’Kenzie, Dr.-, 

M’Adam, Capt. Gilbert, 1760 
M’Curdy, Donald, “ 

Martin, William, “ 

Murray, Col. Alexander, “ 

M’Adam, Dr. William, 1761 

Miller, William, “ 

Moore, Thomas William, “ 

Mitchelson, Walter, 1762 

Malcolm, William, 1763 

Middleton, Robert, “ 

Munro, John, 1764 

Maitland, Col.-, “ 

M’Lean, Dr. Donald, “ 

M’Dougall, Lieut. George, 1765 
M’Donald, Capt. Alexander, 1767 
Maitland, Hon. Col., 1768 

Marquis, Alexander, 1769 

M’Kenzie, Dr. John, “ 

Moncrieff, Lieut. Patrick, 1770 
Maxwell, William, “ 

M’Dougall, William, 1771 

M’Lean, Dr. Archibald, “ 

M’Dougall, Peter, 1784 

MTntosh, James, “ 

Mitchell, Andrew, “ 

Maxwell, William, Jr., “ 

M’Gregor, Coll., “ 

Maxwell, James H., “ 

Morris, Jacob, “ 

Mitchelson, David, “ 

Munro, John, 1785 

Mason, Rev. John, “ 

I M’Lean, John, “ 












LIST OF MEMBERS, 


71 


M’Dougall, Gen. Alexander, 17 85 ' 

Mowatt, John, Jr., 

1796 • 

M’Lean, Archibald, 

tt 

Morris, Richard H., 

1797 

Mitchell, James, 

a 

Miller, John, 

it 

M’Dougall, George, 

1786 

Malcom, Samuel B., 

1798 

Murray, John, 

ii 

Maitland, James, 

1799 

M’Intyre, Neil, 

tt 

Morison, Peter, 

« 

M’Call, Alexander, 

a 

Mitchell, Walter, 

(( 

Morrison, Dr. James, 

“ 

Morton, Thomas, 

u 

Morris, Staats, 

u 

M’Lean, Hugh, 

« 

Moody, Andrew, 

a 

M’Millan, Robert, 

“ 

Monteith, Rev. J., 


M’Donald, A. L., 

1800 

Minto, Walter, 

it 

Malcom, Richard M., 

“ 

M’Kay, Eneas, 

1787 

M’Lean, Dr. Hugh, 

“ 

M’Queen, John, 

ii 

M’Kinlay, Peter, 

1801 

M’Clellan, John, 

it 

M’Pherson, John, 

<« 

Martin, Capt. Daniel, 

1787 

Morison, James, 

1802 

Mowatt, John, 

1788 

Main, James, 

“ 

M’Donald, Alexander, Sen., 

, 1789 

M’Kenzie, Kenneth, 

<< 

Munro, Peter Jay, 

(C 

M’Kinnon, Neil, Jr., 

1804 

M’G;regor, Robert, 


M’Lean, James, 

1805 

Murdoch Patrick, 

1790 

M’Neal, Dr. D., 

1807 

M'Bean, John, 

ti 

M’Cowan, Samuel, 

tt 

Mowatt, Alexander, 

1791 

Murray, John B., 

1808 

Millen, Quinten, 

it 

Munro, Andrew, 

1809 

M'lver, Capt. William, 

it 

M’Arthur, Colin, 

it 

M’Donald, Alexander, 

it 

M’Neil, Neil, 

it 

Masterton, Peter, 

it 

Murray, John R., 

it 

Masterton, Alexander, 

it 

Malcolm, William, 

1810 

MacGregor, John, 

it 

M’Lachlan, Hugh, 

tt 

M’llwrath, Ivie, 

“ 

M’Kinne, Joseph P., 

ti 

M’Kenzie, John, 

ti 

Maxwell, Hugh, 

1811 

M’Dougall, Hugh, 

1792 

M’Cready, Thomas, Jr., 

1813 

Munro, Robert, - 

1793 

M’lntyre, Peter, 

1816 

M’Dougall, Archibald, 

ti 

M’Farlan, John, 

1816 

M’Carr, John, 

ii 

M’Lachlan, James, 


Maxwell, William, 

1794 

Mactier, Henry, 

ii 

Munro, John, 

1795 

1 M’Lea, Alexander, 

a 





















72 


saint Andrew’s society. 


MTherson, George, 
M’Clelan, William W., 
M’Kenzie, John, 
M’Adam, John, 
M’Donald, Alexander, 
Meliss, Andrew, 
MacGregor, John, Jr., 
Mackie, William, 
Mackie, George, 
MacGregor, Robert, Jr., 
Maitland, David, 

Melvill, Allan, 

M’Coskry, Robert, 
M’Leod, William, 
Morrison, William, 
M’Crindell, Thomas, 
M’Dougall, Allan, 
Macdonald, John M., 
Monteith, Adam, 
Morrison, John, 
M’Dougall, John, 
M’Hvain, Donald, 
M’Farlan, William, 
M’lntyre, Archibald, 
Maxwell, W. H., 

Mason, John L., 

Munro, Hugh, 

M’Gregor, Daniel, 
Mason, Abraham, 
M’Crindell, George, 
M’lntyre, John, 

Milne, William C., 
M’Farlan, John, 
M’Martin, John, 
M’Kenzie, Alexander, 
Mackie, John F., 

Morton, Peter, 


1817 

a 

a 

a 

a 

a 

ft 

t< 

1818 

1819 

1820 

1821 

a 

1822 


a 

i* 

1823 

1824 

1825 


it' 

1826 

it 

it 

it 

it 

1827 

it 

it 

it 

1828 

1829 

it 

1830 

1831 

1832 


Maitland, William C., 1833 

Mongomery, John C., 

Morton, Walter, 1834 

Masterton, Alexander, 

Monroe, James, 

M’Kie, Thomas, 

M’Murtrie, William, 1836 

Maitland, Stewart C., 1837 

Martin, William, 1838 

Morton, John, 

M’Quorcodale, Hugh, 

Murray, William S., 1839 

M’Call, Alexander, “ 

M’Call, John, 

Meliss, D. M’Huffy, 1840 

M’Mackintosh, James, “ 

M’JSeill, William G., 

Morrison, James M., 1842 

McFarlane, Andrew, 1843 

McLauchlan, Wm., “ 

Morrison, John, 

Muir, Joseph, “ 

Mitchell, Moncrieff, 1845 

McLean, Samuel, “ 

Meicklehane, D. W., " 

MeCrea, Robert, “ 

McMillan, Robert H., “ 

McCoskry, Samuel, “ 


Maxwell, John Stevenson, 1846 
Mickle, Andrew H., “ 

McVean, Charles> “ 


Menzie, William, 1847 

McGown, Lauchlan Camp., “ 
Me Andrew, Alexander, 1849 

Moir, James, 1860 

Maitland, James W., “ 

Maxwell, James T., “ 







LIST OF MEMBEKS, 


73 


Muir, Andrew, Jr., 

1850 

McLimont, Andrew, 

it 

McCowan, Henry, 

1851 

Monro, Hugh, 

1852 

McKenzie, Alexander, 

it 

Mackay, John M., 

it 

McKenzie, 'William, 

1853 

Moffat, David, 

it 

McClellan, Robert, 

it 

Miller, James, 

a 

Macnaughtan, William, 

1854 

McClure, John, 

tt 

Mathieson, Colin, 

a 

McConochie, Alexander, 

a 

Miller, Alexander, 

a 

McAusland, James, 

a 

Macdonald, Francis, 

tt 

Mitchell, Gregor, 

a 

Munro, Daniel, 

1855 

Moir, William, 

a 

Macfarlane, James, 

tt 

McCoy, John F., 

a 

McIntosh, Lachlan, 

1856 

McSymon, John, 

it 

McEwan, Alex. R., 

a 

Montgomery, William, 

it 

McNair, Thomas, 

it 

Major, Wm. Kevan, 

it 

Morton, Robert, 

it 

N. 


Napier, James, 

1757 

Newton, Thomas, 

1160 

Nevin, Daniel, 

1784 

Nicholson, Com. James, 

1790 

Napier, Andrew, 

1800 

Newlands, Alexander, 

1806 


Napier, John, 

1820 

Norrie, Adam, 

1827 

Napier, Alexander D., * 

1846 

Normand, James, Jr., 

1851 

Norrie, Gordon, 

1852 

Nimmo, Thomas Miller, 

it 

Norral, James, M. D., 

1856 

O. 

Ogilvie, Rev. John, 

1769 

Ogilvie, Peter, 

1786 

Ogilby, Leonard, 

1820 

Olyphant, D. W. C., 

1824 

Ogilvie, James, 

1835 

Olyphant, Robert M., 

1846 

Olyphant, David, 

1853 

Olyphant, George Talbot, 

it 

P. 

Pringle, Lieut. Francis, 

1756 

Provost, John, 

1761 

Patterson, James, 

1763 

Phyn, James, 

1765 

Pagan, William, 

it 

Preston, Major, 

1770 

Panton, Francis, 

1784 

Perkins, Andrew, 

1785 

Patrick, William, 

“ 

Peacock, Alexander, 

1786 

Patterson, John, 

1787 

Palmer, James, Jr., 

1800 

Patterson, James, 

it 

Palmer, John J., 

1803 

Patterson, James B., 

it 

Pringle, Henry, 

1804 

Proudfit, Dr. D., 

1805 

Perry, William, 

“ 









74 saint Andrew’s society. 

• 

Pott, Gideon, 

1807 

Robertson, Major James, 

1776 

Phyfe, John, 

1817 

Ramsay, John, 

1759 

Paton, James, 

1825 

Robinson, Col. -, 

1762 

Paterson, Matthew C., 

1826 

Reed, Colin, 

it 

Pirnie, John, 

1831 

Reid, Capt. John, 

1765 

Pattison, Godfrey, 

1833 

Ross, James, 

1766 

Patton, David E., 

ii 

Ross, Dr.-, 

1772 

Phyfe, Robert, 

1834 

Ritchie, Capt. William, 

1774 

Pott, Thomas, 

it 

Reid, William, 

ii 

Paton, Thomas, 

a 

Ren wick, James, 

1784 

Phyfe, William F., 

a 

Rutherford, John, 

a 

Palmer, James H., 

1837 

Robertson, Alexander, 

a 

Paton, William, 

a 

Robertson, Robert, 

a 

Porteous, Thomas, 

1838 

Robertson, Charles, 

a 

Pattison, Robert, 

1839 

Riddell, Alexander, 

a 

Pattison, Dr. Grenville S., 

1841 

Robertson, William, 

1785 

Pirnie, Peter B., 

1842 

Ronalds, James, 

1786 

Pirnie, John, Jr., 

1843 

Russell, Hugh, 

it 

Petrie, James S., 

1846 

Ross, Alexander, 

it 

Pattison, Frederick Hope, 

1848 

Ross, Robert, 

it 

Pearson, Adam, 

1849 

Robertson, John, 

a 

Pott, Francis, 

1850 

Rankin, John, 

1789 

Pott, James, 

it 

Robertson, Thomas, 

1790 

Pott, Gideon, 

1852 

Renwick, William, 

1791 

Paton, T. C. Morton, 

1853 

Robertson, Archibald, 

ii 

Pearson, David, 

it 

Robertson, Alexander, 

1793 



Robertson, John S., 

ii 

Q. 


Ross, William, 

1800 

Queen, John, 

1806 

Reed, Thomas, 

ii 

Quee, James, 

1856 

Russell, David, 

1801 



Ronalds, John, 

1803 

R. 


Reid, John, 

1806 

Rutherfurd, Hon. John, 

1756 

Robertson, James, 

a 

Rutherfurd, Walter, 

ii 

Rea, John, 

1807 

Ross, John, 

it 

Renwick, James, 

1810 

Ramsay, En. William, 

1757 

Ronalds, Thomas A., 

it 

Russell, William, 

ii 

Robertson, Daniel S., 

1811 

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LIST OF MEMBERS, 


75 


Renwick, Robert, Jr., 

1814 

Seton, William, 

1765 

Reston, William, 

1816 

Stewart, William, 

1766 

Richardson, John W., 

1817 

Sutherland, Hon. Capt., 

1768 

Ruthven, James, 

1826 

Scott, Colin, 

ii 

Robinson, Beverly, Jr., 

1832 

Stewart, Charles, 

1769 

Rait, Robert, 

1838 

Stewart, Dr. William, 

ii 

Ritchie, John, 

1839 

Smybert, Capt.-, 

1770 

Rutherford, John, 

1840 

Scott, Capt. David, 

a 

Rankin, Alexander, 

1841 

Syme, Col.-, 

a 

Rogers, Joseph, 

1847 

Sinclair, Robert, 

1773 

Robinson, Douglas, 

1848 

Stewart, Capt. Alexander, 

ii 

Renfrew, Robert, 

1849 

Shaw, Capt. Daniel, 

a 

Ritchie, Thomas, 

1850 

Sutherland, Capt. James, 

1774 

Robinson, George M., 

1851 

Scott, Lewis A., 

1784 

Reid, Charles H., 

1852 

Stevens, John, Jr., 

ii 

Ronalds, William R., 

ii 

Service, George, 

a 

Ross, Andrew, 

1853 

Scott, James, 

ii 

Ruthven, James A., 

ii 

Saidler, James, 

ii 

Roberton, John, 

1854 

Shedden, William, 

ii 

Robertson, Anthony L., 

H 

Stevenson, Hay, 

ii 

Rose, Charles E., 

1855 

Smith, Charles, 

1785 

Robertson, James, 

1856 

Seath, Dr. David, 

ii 



Sands, Joshua, 

ii 

S. 


Stewart, Capt. James, 

ii 

Scott, John Morin, 

1756 

Smith, John, 

ii 

Stewart, John, 

1757 

Stuart, James, 

1787 

Sinclair, Sir John, 

a 

Sloan, Dunbar, 

ii 

Stewart, James, 

1758 

Smith, James R., ^ 


Story, James, 

1759 

Stevenson, Thomas, 

1788 

Simpson, Capt. John, 

1761 

Saltus, Solomon, 

1789 

Stirling, Rt. Hon.W., Earl of, “ 

Swanston, John, 

ii 

Shaw, Neil, 

ii 

Symington, James, # 

a 

Sutherland, Capt.- 

-, 1762 

Stewart, Charles, 

1790 

Small, Major John, 

1763 

Scotland, John, 

1792 

Stevenson, Capt.- 

, 1764 

Stewart, William, 

1793 

Sproat, David, 

" 

Seton, James, 

ii 

Scott, Charles, 

1766 

Scott, John, 




















76 


_ & 

8Aint Andrew’s society. 


Stevenson, Peter, 

17941 

Scott, Hector. 

1796 

Smith, Andrew, 

1799 

Sanders, William, 

it 

Somerville, Alexander, 

a 

Service, Thomas, 

1800 

Scott, George, 

a 

Storry, Andrew, 

it 

Storry, Alexander, 

a 

Sharp, John, 

1801 

Sharp, Robert, 

a 

Scott, James, Jr., 

tt 

Shedden, Thomas, 

1802 

Smith, Dr. William, 

ii 

Swan, William, 

1803 

Steel, Robert M., 

it 

Sinclair, James, 

ii 

Stewart, William, 

1804 

Stevenson, James, 

it 

Stevenson, Alexander, 

it 

Shaw, David, 

it 

Sharpe, John, 

1805 

Seton, James, 

1806 

Saltus, Francis, 

1810 

Saltus, Nicholas, 

it 

Smith, Robert C., 

1812 

Stevenson, John G., 

1814 

Smith, William, 

1815 

Stephen, Alexander, 

1816 

Stuart, William J., 

1817 

Stuart, Kinloch, 

1818 

Saidler, William S., 

a 

Stephenson, William, 

1819 

Sheriff, John, 

1821 

Smith, Robert S., 

1824 

Smith, Andrew, 

1825 

Stewart, William, 

1826 


Scott, William, 

1827 

Stuart, Robert L., 

it 

Stevenson, Dr. John B., 

1829 

Scott, John, 

1831 

Stodart, William, 

1832 

Scrymgeour, James, 

1833 

Smith, William A., 


Scott, William, 

1834 

Stuart, Alexander, 

it 

Stewart, David, 

a 

Smith, Robert, 

1835 

Smith, Cunningham, 

1836 

Sherriff, Robert, 

1838 

Sampson, George L., 

a 

Strachan, Patrick, 

1839 

Scott, Wm. Donaldson, 

it 

Shaw, James P., 

1840 

Starkweather, Samuel, 

a 

Slater, John, 

a 

Shepherd, Thomas, 

1842 

Sloane, David, 

1843 

Seller, T., 

1845 

Soutter, James T., 

it 

Speir, Gilbert M., 

1846 

Sampson, George G., 

“ 

Symington, James, 

1847 

Sloane, William, 

1848 

Stewart, James, 

1853 

Slimmon, Robert, 

1854 

Scrymgeour, William, 

1855 

Smibert, James, 

ii 

Sampson, Norman D., 

1856 

T. 


Thomson, Dr. Adam, 

1756 

Troup, John, 

ii 






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77 


Trail, George, 

Turnbull, George, 

1756 

1757 

u. 

1794 i 

Tolmie, Normand, 

1760 

Urquhart, John, 

Turnbull, George, 

1784 

Urquhart, John, 

1815 

Thomson, John, 

ii 

V. 


Turner, John, Jr., 

ti 


Taylor, John, 

ii 

Vans, Capt. Christopher, 

1762 j 

Troup, Robert, 

Troup, Henry, 

1785 

ii 

Yan Courtlandt, Pierre, Jr., 1786 j 

Tillary, Dr. James, 

ti 

W. 


Turnbull, Col. George, 

1788 


Todd, James, 

it 

Watts, John, 

1756 | 

Turnbull, William, 

1789 

Walker, John, Jr., 

u 

Thomson, Alexander, 

1792 

Waddell, John, 


Turnbull, John, 

1798 

Walker, John, 

a 

Taylor, William, 

1800 

Wood, Thomas, 

tt 

Todd, Michael, 

1801 

Wardrop, James, 

1757 

Thompson, Robert, 

1805 

Weir, Daniel, 

a 

Thomson, James, 

1810 

Wilson, Capt. John, 

1761 

Troup, Robert R., 

1814 

Wilson, George, 

1763 

Thomson, Alexander, 

1815 

Wallace, Hugh, 

1768 

Todd, William, 

1816 

Waddell, Capt. Robert, 

1770 

Thomson, William L, 

1817 

Wotherspoon, Dr,-r. 

1771 

Thomson, James, Jr., 

1818 

Wilson, Robert, 

1784 | 

Thomson, William, 

1820 

Wilson, William, 

“ 

Thomson, Patrick, 

1821 

Wilson, Rev, James, 

1785 

Taylor, James, 

1822 

Wilson, John, 

ib. 

Thorburn, Grant, 

1824 

Wright, George, 

ib. 

Turnbull, John, 

1827 

Watts, John, Jr., 

1786 

Thomson, John, 

1833 

Wilson, Rev. John, 

“ 

Thorburn, George C., 

1838 

Williamson, David, 

1789 

Turnure, Lawrence, 

1849 

Wilson, Peter, 

I 

Tait, George, 

it 

Wright, Thomas, 

1790 j 

, j 

Thomson, Wm. G., 

1854 

Watson, Matthew, 

1791 

Turnure, Abraham, 

1856 

Wilson, Campbell, 

1793 

Turnure, David M., 


Williamson, Richard, 

1799 | 

4 

Weir, Walter, 

t 

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1801 i 

j 


















78 saint Andrew’s society. 


Weir, Robert, 1802 

J Whitlow, Thomas, 1804 

Wilson, Alexander, 1805 

Willkings, M. R., 1807 

Wallace, William, 1810 

Wilson, George, “ 

Wilson, William D., “ 

Wallace, Robert, 1815 

Watts, Charles, 1816 

Wilson, Robert L., 1817 

Wotherspoon, George, 1825 

Watt, Archibald, 1826 

Whitehead, William, 1827 

Wood, William, 1828 

Whitewriglit, William, 1831 

Walsh, Andrew R., 1832 

Wotherspoon, James, “ 

Watson, Dr. Alexander T., 1836 
White wriglit, Wm., Jr., 1837 

Williamson, James, “ 

Wilson, Charles, 1838 


Wilson, John, 

1840 

White, James F., 

1841 

Watson, A. H., 

1845 

Walker, Wm. C., 

1849 

White, James F., 

1851 

Weddell, Matthew, 

1852 

Wallace, William L., 

a 

Wilson, Chas. G., 

1856 

Wallace, Wm. C., 

it 

Y. 

Young, Dr. --, 

1757 

Young, Col. John, 

1760 

Young, John, 

1784 

Yates, Hon. Peter W., 

1785 

Young, William, 

1815 

Young, Alexander, 

it 

Young, Charles, 

1818 

Young, W. G., 

1846 

Young, George, 

1852 












































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HONORARY MEMBERS. 




Adam, Walter, 

A. 

Jamaica, 

1786 

Auldjo, John, 


London, 

1787 

Aitkin, Hugh, 


Virginia, 

U 

Armstrong, William, 


Elizabethtown, 

1791 

Anderson, James, 


Georgetown, S. C., 

it 

Auchinvole, David, 


Hudson, 

1798 

Aiken, John, 

Anderson, Dr. Adam, 


Jamaica, 

1800 

ti 

Angus, John, 


Amboy, 

1802 

Auld, Robert, 


London, 

1836 

Buchanan, Robert, 

B. 

Glasgow, 

1788 

Bell, William, 


Perth, 

“ 

Brown, The Rev. Dr., 


Halifax, 

1791 

Blackstock, William, 


Boston, 

1799 

Buchanan, Walter W., 


Sackett’s Harbor, 

1810 

Brodie, Alexander 0., 


Hamburg, 

1816 

Coupar, Capt. Henry, 

C. 

London, 

1773 

Cramond, William, 


Philadelphia, 

1785 

Campbell, Capt. John, 


Campbellton, 

u 

Clark, Kenneth, 


North Carolina, 

1799 

Campbell, Capt. Daniel, 
Campbell, Sir William, 


Upper Canada, 

1803 

1832 











84 


saint Andrew’s society. 


D. 


Douglas, Samuel, 


London, 

1*784 

Dunbar, Robert, 


Virginia, 

it 

Douglas, William, 


London, 

1791 

Dove, William, 


Scotland, 

1802 

Dow, Dr. Robert, • 


New-Orleans, 

1819 

Dickson, William, 

F. 

London, 

it 

FyfFe, Dr. Charles, 


Charleston, S. C., 

1786 

Frazer, John, 


Dominica, 

1802 

Fleming, John B. 


Morrisiana, 

1805 

Falconer, Patrick, 


Banffshire, 

1810 

Fleming, John, 

G. 

Glasgow, 

1811 

Gilchrist, Adam, Sen., 
Gilchrist, Adam, Jr., 


Charleston, S. C., 

1784 

Galloway, James, 


Jamaica, 

1786 

Grant, Capt.. Charles, 


London, 

1787 

Gray, Benjamin, 


Liverpool, 

1796 

Gordon, David, 


Edinburgh, 

1799 

Gardner, Henry, 

H. 

Augusta, Geo., 

1817 

Hart, Patrick, 


Virginia, 

1785 

Hyslop, Maxwell, 


Jamaica, 

1805 

Hamilton, Alexander, 


Florida, 

1810 

Hutchison, Robert, 


Scotland, 

1815 

Jamieson, Neil, 

J. 

London, 

1784 

Johnston, John, 


Dumfrieshire, 

1786 

Jamieson, Robert, 


Lochinvoch, 

1790 


Johnston, his Excellency Samuel, Gov. of North Carolina, 












HONORARY MEMBERS, 


85 




Johnston, George, 

New-Orleans, 

1794 

Ironside, George, 

Washington City, 

1809 

Irving, Washington, 

London, 

1810 

Jackson, David, 

Liverpool, 

1810 

K. 

Kennedy, Capt. John, 

Kirkcudbright, 

1791 

L. 

Laurie, Sir Peter, 

London, 

1785 

Livingston, Edward, Esq., 

New-Orleans, 

1786 

Leckie, Alexander, 

Shelburn, 

“ 

Lindsay, Capt. Geprge, 

Greenock, 

1788 

Lenox, James, Esq., 

London, 

1792 

Liston, Robert, Esq., Min. Plenipotentiary from Great Britain, 

1796 

Lindsay, Robert, 

Charleston, 


Lumsden, James, 

Glasgow, 

1843 

I 

M. 

Moyes, Dr.-, 1784 

Milligan, James, Esq., Comptroller of the 

Treasury, 

1785 

M’Lachlan, Michael, 

Jamaica, 

1786 

M’Arthur, Capt. James, 

London, 

H 

M’Pherson, Daniel, 

Alexandria, 

it 

Mutter, Robert, 

Virginia, 

" 

M’Kenzie, Alexander, 

Jamaica, 

1790 

M’Gillivray, Col. Alexander, 

Creek Nation, 

U 

Miller, George, Esq., IL B. M.’s Consul, 

Southern States, 

1791 

Miller, James, Esq., 

London, 

ii 

Mason, The Rev. Dr. John M., 

Carlisle, Penn., 

1792 

Miller, The Rev. Dr. Samuel M., 

Princeton, N. J., 

1793 

Maitland, William, Esq., 

Dumfrieshire, 

1798 

M’Adam, John, 

Jamaica, 

1799 

M’Credie, Andrew, 

Savannah, 

U 

M’Gregor, Alexander, Esq., 

Liverpool, 

“ 

Morgan, William, Esq., 

Jamaica, 

1802 














SO saint Andrew’s society. 


M’Gillivray, Simon, Esq., 



1803 

M’Taviah, John, Esq., 



1807 

M’Adam, John, Esq., 


Liverpool, 

1809 

MacGregor, Alexander, Jr., 


Liverpool, 

1817 

M’Clelland, The Rev. Alexander, 


1819 

Muir, The Rev. Dr. James, 
McKenzie, Kenneth, 

0 . 

Alexandria, 

a 

1839 

Ogilvie, James, Earl of Findlater, 


1816 


P. 



Patou, James, 


New-Jersey, 

1786 

Pattison, Andrew, 


Paisley, 

1789 

Parish, David, Esq, 



1809 

Palmer, Joseph, 


South America, 

1816 

Reid, George, 

R. 

Charleston, 

1785 

Reid, John, 


Virginia, 

1790 

Robertson, Gilbert, H. B. M.’s 

Consul, 

Philadelphia, 

1800 


S. 



Smith, James, 


Kirkcudbright, 

1785 

Sample, William, 


Philadelphia, 

1786 

Smith, Capt. John, 


Greenock, 

1794 

Smith, Andrew, Esq., 


Richmond, Va., 

1803 

Sloane, James, 

T. 

Peebles, 

1835 

Turnbull, George T., 


Greenwich, 

1784 

Tyril, Capt. James, 


Greenock, 

1786 

Telford, Capt. Francis, 


Greenock, 

a 

Trokes, Maw ell, 


Liverpool, 

1810 

















HONORARY MEMBERS. 


87 


Walker, George, 
Wardrop, John, 
Wheeler, Capt. Donald, 
Wright, James, 
Warrand, John, 
Wardrop, Dr. John, 
Wylie, Henry, 

1 Whitlow, Charles, 
Wood, James, 
Woodhnll, Maxwell, 


W. 


Georgetown, K C., 1787 
Virginia, 1788 

Providence, “ 

Virginia, 1790 


Dominica, 1802 

London, 1803 

London, 1812 

London, 1833 

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THE SCOT ABROAD 


AND THE 


SOOT A.T HOME: 

AN ORATION, 

DELIVERED BEFORE THE 

Saint latkclu's Socictn, 

OF THE 

STATE OF NEW -YORK, 

ON THE OCCASION OF 

THE CELEBRATION OP ITS ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY, 

On the 1st of Decamber, 1856, 

B r THE Rev. JOHN THOMSON, D. D., 

Pastor of the Grand-street Church and one of the Chaplains of the Society. 


JOHN W. AMERMAN, PRINTER, 
No. 60 William-street. 


1856. 

















At a meeting of the Saint Andrew's Society, held immediately 
after the delivery o fthe Address, it was unanimously 

Resolved, That the thanks of the Society he presented to the 
Rev. Dr. Thomson for his eloquent and instructive Address, and 
that a copy thereof be requested for publication. 

A copy having been furnished by the author, with an expression 
of his sincere pleasure in acceding to the request of the Society, it 
is now published for their benefit. 









CENTENNIAL ORATION. 




On the nineteenth day of November, A. D. 1756, 
a number of gentlemen resident in this city, natives 
of Scotland or of Scottish descent, met together in 
the old Tontine, at the corner of Wall and Water 
streets, and formed themselves into the Society, the 
hundredth Anniversary of which we are summoned 
this day to celebrate. It was no war-cry of party 
that gave this honored association its being, and by 
no party creed have its efforts and its sympathies been 
in any manner or to any extent directed. Brotherly 
kindness was its first impulse and charity its first ob¬ 
ject:—not that charity that by its cold repulsiveness 
really tends to perpetuate the miseries which it 
affects to alleviate and remove, but the charity that, 
born from above, seeks instinctively to association, 
that it may more effectively work upon the masses 
of the poor; and not to subdue, but to upraise them; 
not to mortify, but to direct them; and though men 
and things have changed since then—though “ the 
little one hath become a thousand and the weak one 
a strong nation”—yet are brotherly kindness and 
charity truly the foundation of our Society. True 









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it is entirely national both, in its origin and design, 
but not more so in the objects towards whom its 
beneficence is extended than in the sources from 
which its contributions are drawn. And besides, it 
is an erroneous opinion that because a benevolent 
association bears a national character it is inconsist¬ 
ent with unfeigned charity wdiose domain is uni¬ 
versal. If indeed membership in such an associa¬ 
tion blocked up the flow of benevolence in every 
other direction, then of such single-eyed beneficence 
this association were well rid. But if it can be 
proved, as proved it can be, that a wise and well- 
directed national feeling is by no means incompati¬ 
ble either with our responsibility to the state in 
which we live or with our obligations to the victims 
of poverty and distress from whatsoever land they 
hail, then the objection to such associations as this on 
the ground of their nationality may be allowed to go 
for what it is worth. This much is evident:—this 
Society knows no party, political or ecclesiastical. 

Its foundation is charity in its highest, purest sense, 
and its aim is to alleviate the miseries of poverty 
among those who instinctively seek to it as their 
ultimate hopeful resource. 

During the first twenty years of its existence the 
noble end which its originators had in view seems 
to have been answered entirely to their satisfaction. 
And although dollars and cents were then unknown, ! 
and pounds, shillings and pence formed the legal 
currency of the colony, the hundred and twenty 












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5 


pounds, the aggregate of the first year’s contribu¬ 
tions, show that the hearts of our forefathers here 
were ever open to the cry and importunities of the 
needy. One feature in their mode of dispensing 
their charities deserves to be recorded to their honor, 
for it evinces a peculiarity in the Scottish character, 
even where it may have been borne down and op¬ 
pressed by misfortune. Money was never denied 
to such as were really deserving: clothing and fuel 
and even medicines were dispensed to such as re¬ 
quired them, and for the utterly destitute and house¬ 
less homes were cheerfully provided ; but in addition, 
implements and materials for domestic manufacture 
were provided for the industrious poor , and the 
highest prices were then paid for what their shill 
and their labor produced; and thus was the innate 
independence of the Scottish heart, that has often 
urged its subject to starve rather than descend to beg¬ 
gary'—to submit without a murmur to the privations 
of sternest poverty rather than mention his wants 
even to the nearest kinsman—that has clothed the 
countenance with the smile of contentment while 
the heart within has been the seat of sad though not 
hopeless thoughts—thus, I say, was that innate in¬ 
dependence re-awakened and stimulated by this 
genial and enlightened beneficence. The stigma 
attached to dependence was thus removed, and the 
child of misfortune instructed to regard himself as 
indeed a necessary link in the great, grasping chain 
of humanity. 





6 saint Andrew’s society. 


During these years, too, the quarterly and annual 
meetings of the Society were regularly held, and 
friendly social intercourse thus maintained among 
its members. And who can tell the amount of in¬ 
fluence which these gatherings in the old Tontine of 
New-York may have had in the formation of char¬ 
acter, afterwards developed amid the stirring times 
of the Revolution? The first President of the Soci¬ 
ety was Philip Livingston, and its first Secretary 
was Richard Morris; both of them better known 
in the after years and history of the country than at 
the time when they aided in organizing the Saint 
Andrew’s Society of this State. Among succeeding 
Presidents, previous to the Revolution, we find the 
honored and honorable names of John Morin Scott, 
Andrew Barclay, the Earl of Stirling, Lord Dun- 
more, Lord Drummond and John Watts. 

There is a blank in the history of our Society ex¬ 
tending from the year 1775 to the year 1784—a 
blank that tells us in terms not to be mistaken that, 
like other associations in this city, both of an eccle¬ 
siastical and commercial character, its existence and 
its design were alike suspended by the commotions 
incident to the times. But in 1784 the Society 
sprang anew into being with more than its former 
strength. The blasts through which it had evident¬ 
ly passed had only served to fasten its roots more 
deeply into the soil, and to impart a vigor to its 
branches that at this distant day knows assuredly no 
decay. 





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From that day to this, the Society has continued 
its quiet, unostentatious, but useful labors in the- 
great arena of human misery, and has ever em¬ 
braced among its Members the elite and worth of 
the Scottish society of New-York. No jars nor 
discords, no feuds nor dissensions have ever marred 
the harmony of its assemblies, or impaired the an¬ 
nual flow of its brotherly and kindly beneficence. 
Men of all political parties, and of no political 
party, have met at its social gatherings, and 
have cast their contributions into its treasury ; but 
here they have met as “brither Scots;’ 1 ’ both 
from “Maiden Kirk and John o’ Groats;” they 
have met as brothers, and thus they continue to 
this day. 

The names of some of our ante-Re volutionary 
fathers have been mentioned, and though in men¬ 
tioning any of their successors we tread very closely 
upon the heels of the living, yet I feel constrained 
to the task; for why should the names and the 
virtues of departed fathers be lost to those of their 
children that survive ? Among those deserving of 
all honor, though now no more on earth, are the 
names of the Hon. Robert Livingston, at one time 
Chancellor of the State, who, in 1784, was chosen 
First Yice-President, and during seven succeeding 
years occupied the chair as President of the Society. 
He, along with General William Malcolm, had 
been assistants in the Society previous to the 
Revolutionary era, and it is pleasing to find their 





8 saint Andrew’s society. 


names again enrolled in onr archives, although 
now the Colony is changed into a State, and the 
State is a unit in a gorgeous galaxy. In the same 
catalogue we find David Johnston, Yice-President 
under Lord Drummond in 1773, President in the 
following year, and then re-elected to the Presi¬ 
dential chair on the resurrection of the association 
in 1784. And it is from this date that we of this 
day begin to recognise familiar names among the 
fathers of our Society—names that we have heard 
mentioned ofttimes, and never without respect. It 
is then that we get an introduction to Lenox, and 
the Douglasses, and the Maxwells, and the Pobert- 
sons, and Mitchells, and Hosacks, and others in 
office in the Society—names which stamp upon its 
early history the impress of worth, intelligence and 
patriotism. Amid all the acts of benevolence asso¬ 
ciated with the names and memories of these hon¬ 
ored fathers, it were w r rong to lose sight of the 
institution of the school in connection with the 
Scotch Church in this city, founded through the 
benevolence of Alexander Pobertson; a school 
that has ever been superintended by experienced 
teachers, under whose fostering care not a few who 
now hear me have been nurtured and brought up ; 
an appropriation of his estate, while he lived, hon¬ 
orable alike to the character and spirit of the man 
and to the country that gave him birth. From, 
1798 to 1813, we find the name of Pobert Lenox 
at the head of our Society, and sustained in the 





CENTENNIAL ORATION. 


9 


earlier years of his Presidency by the Douglass, 
and Tillary, and Munro and others, few of whom 
now remain on earth. We find him succeeded in 
the chair by Dr. Tillary, and he in turn by Archi¬ 
bald Grade, and Robert Halliday and John 
Graham; and then, in 1831, we find Galloway 
and Aberdeen united in the Presidential and Yice- 
Presidential chairs, in the persons of John Johnston 
and David Hadden— men , in the truest and highest 
sense of the term ; men, these, who have not merely 
given to this Society their aid while living, but have 
thrown their mantle of Membership over the shoul¬ 
ders of their surviving sons. 

And now we have got to the whereabouts of men 
still living, and to them the memories of those but 
recently departed are peculiarly fragrant and grate¬ 
ful. The frank,, and genial and dignified demeanor 
of David S. Kennedy, and the blunt and honest 
cheerfulness of Homer Maxwell, are still vividly 
before our minds. The mould lies but lightly yet 
over their ashes. Hot a more kindred spirit could 
have succeeded David S. Kennedy than Richard 
Irvin. He is with us still, and long may his services 
and his unostentatious kindnesses be retained to the 
Society, over which he presided during nine years 
of its existence. And now, Sir, yourself—but here 
I forbear. You have given full proof of your inter¬ 
est in our brotherhood, and of your attachment to 
the land of your birth. Your liberality has cheered 
many a lonely chamber in this city, and the recipi- 









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ents have never known from wliat hand the blessed 
j gift has come. 

There is a department of this Society to which I 
cannot refrain from alluding, because of the charac¬ 
ter and position of the men who were engaged in it. 
The Chaplaincy seems to have been first established 
in 1786 ; and its roll embraces, among many honor¬ 
ed names, and among them that of my revered and 
lamented predecessor, a trio who, for fervent piety, 
glowing eloquence and literary attainments, have 
had few equals, and still fewer superiors, in this 
American land. Its first Chaplain was the well- 
known Dr. John Mason. He was succeeded by 
i his son, Dr. John M. Mason, of not less precious 
memory. These two we may regard as one. Along 
| with the latter there was associated Dr. Samuel 
Miller, who continued in office from 1800 to 1812, 
l the year of his removal to Princeton; and between 
whom and the godly and the great in his fatherland 
a precious correspondence was, till the day of his 
death, maintained. And then we meet the honored 
name of Dr. Alexander McLeod, the father of our 
, present senior Chaplain. In the archives of no 
Society in this land can there be found a nobler, 
or more justly honored, or more influential trio 
than these in their several spheres of life, whether 
| in pastoral devotedness, in general philanthropy, 

! or in their attachment to the cause and interests of 
truth. Happy would I be could I have joined with 
these the name of Dr. John Wotherspoon ; but he, 









CENTENNIAL ORATION. 


11 


though enrolled as a Member in 1771, does not 
appear upon the list of office-bearers. 

Another name there is upon our register of Mem¬ 
bers, of which it is only becoming that mention 
should here be made. It is the name of General 
Alexander Hamilton, a man whose premature and 
cruel death plunged a new-born nation into mourn¬ 
ing, and whose epitaph may be read in the homage 
that that nation, now risen into vigorous youth, con¬ 
tinues to render to his memory. 

In thus looking back into the history of such an 
association as this, and in following its progress up 
to its present high and honorable position, there 
must, of necessity, mingle with our gladness of heart 
a large measure of sad, though, I trust, not unprofit¬ 
able reflection. Nor is it beneath the dignity of 
manhood to acknowledge and give way to this. 
It is like a visit to the homes and tombs of our 
fathers after long years of absence and exile; beside 
which he is something less than a man who would 
block up the flow of feeling and refuse to drop, the 
tear of gladsome recognition. Humble as the house 
appears, it was the home of our father, and we are 
glad to find that the roof-tree is strong still, even in 
its old age. Yonder through the meadow plays the 
stream just as of yore, when his hands, by its banks, 
made and unmade many a little pond, and when he 
felt proud of his handiwork when he had stocked it 
with minnows from the brook. And yonder rises 
the old oak tree of which, in an evening hour in a 










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far-off land, he has often told ns—where the races 
and the games of his childhood were begun; and 
here the old church, around which “ the rude fore¬ 
fathers of the hamlet sleep and there, under its 
shadow, the parish school, in which he was early 
nurtured in the lessons of industry, economy and j 
truth that carried him in safety through life’s many 
perils, and that still entitle his memory to our high 
veneration and regard. That is a base and selfish 
soul that refuses to Nature her rightful and honor¬ 
able prerogative then. And so to some extent must 
it be with us when, as now, we stand upon the far¬ 
ther verge of an hundred years, and turn and look 
back into the valley. 

The fathers, the founders of our brotherhood, are no 
more with us on earth, and of their earlier successors 
in office, a few, and only a very few, remain. Each 
succeeding year of its history discloses names that 
were, and are not. It may have been but a small 
matter in their checquered history, and amid the 
lieavings of society in their eventful day, that they 
should have given birth, in a Colony of the West, 
to a brotherly and benevolent association like this. 
But if men’s deeds be in general an accurate gauge 
of men’s minds, and if by their lives their characters 
may be determined, and if from leading points in 
the individual life we may arrive at an estimate of 
the bias and tenor of the whole, then may we take* 
the foundation of this Society, and its resuscitation 
after a period of unwilling and enforced repose, and 












CENTENNIAL ORATION. 13 j 


the spirit, and energy and high moral tone thrown 
into its operations during each succeeding year of 
its existence, as a monument to the benevolence 
and the patriotism alike' of its first founders and 
their successors in office. That amid their engross- j 
ing pursuits and avocations, amid the surgings of 
grand political movements pregnant with results 
which the world knows not fully yet, and amid the 
new and unexpected relationships in which they were 
called upon with gathering energy to engage, they 
yet had time, and will, and heart to look to their 
countrymen landing on these shores, to throw the 
shield of their experience and counsel over the 
stranger, and to extend material assistance to the 
poor; this sheds a glory around their names and 
memories that ought to excite us all to imitation. 

I know not the measure of influence which the 
founders of our Society may have had in the great j 
political movements of their day; but three cen- j 
turies in its proper land have made but few marked 
changes in the main features of the Scottish charac¬ 
ter. Many characteristics are still common to the 
Scot of this present age and the Scot that had his 
dwelling here a century ago. Caution and fore¬ 
thought, prudence and quietness, marked, we doubt 
not, the characters of our forefathers then, just as 
they are conspicuous in the characters of their suc¬ 
cessors now. Keen politicians they may have been, 
and their nearest neighbors not have known it. But 
that they were on the side of what they deemed 









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| truth, justice and liberty, no one acquainted with 
j the Scottish character will dispute. The Scot 
knows his individuality, and the obligations that 
j lie upon him, the man, and of these he cannot, of 
I all men, consent either to an enforced or proxy 
performance. Clannish though other nations deem j 
him, his clannishness is regulated by intelligence 
and reason ; hence the demagogue cannot move 
him, nor the scheming politician compass him. 
The shrewdness and self-reliance, and the quiet 
firmness that mark his discharge of duty now, we 
doubt not, marked his discharge of duty here a 
century ago. There are, however, two paintings 
extant that are amply suggestive of the part that 
some at least of our countrymen took in the grand j 
Revolutionary struggle. In the boat that carried 
the Father of his Country across the Delaware, I 
find the blue bonnet of Scotland on the head of one 
of his companions. The name of the hero that wore 
it history does not record; but it is enough for our 
present purpose to be assured that during that 
stormiest and least hopeful period of Washington’s 
eventful career, the courage and the heart of the Scot 
were with him. And still another painting there 
is, equally suggestive and equally true. It is an 
assemblage of strong and resolute men. Scan every 
form placed upon the canvass ; there is fire in every 
eye, resolution on every lip, there is determination 
stamped on every brow. Even the broad brim of 
the Quaker refuses then to conceal his brave and 













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stirred soul. The very attitudes of the men, from 
that of him who sits at yonder table with the great 
roll before him and the pen in his hand, to that of 
him who is the ministering witness of the deed, all 
testify that that is to be done to-day with which 
mighty and fathomless interests are bound up. Yes! 
the last link in the chain that binds these thirteen 
Colonies to the mother land shall to-day be broken ! 
The Declaration of Independence shall to-day ascend 
into its place in this great world’s archives. Come 
weal, come woe—come blood, and fire, and sword, 
and all the hounds of war let loose—the deed is 
done. And who is that, in the full vigor of man¬ 
hood, and of middle stature, rather round in form, 
yet hardy in his make, with quick, keen, earnest 
eye, betokening unwonted energy and a resolute 
soul, a cap upon his head, and his body swathed 
in the folds of a Geneva gown, that presses towards 
the desk, and, seizing the pen, with unfaltering 
hand, affixes his signature to the deed ? Read it; 
and in the letters as they take their place on that 
imperishable record, read the very soul of John 
Wotherspoon, a Scottish clergyman, a man of 
whom the world will testify that he did not love 
the land of his nativity less because he loved the 
land of his adoption more. Beneath a humble 
stone among the tombs of the Presidents in Prince¬ 
ton, lie the remains of that venerated man. He 
has left to us, the sons of St. Andrew, a memory of 
which we have reason to be proud, and the record 





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of a ministry in Scotland to which, in her brightest 
periods, the Church of our fathers can furnish few 
equals. ' 

Here, then, are two representatives of Scotland 
in two of the most eventful periods of this Republic’s 
history ; and they stood not alone. How could they ? 
With their country’s struggles and triumphs, defeats 
and victories, engraven on their hearts, how could 
the sons of Scotia stand aloof from such a conflict ? 
Taught and trained from childhood in a school 
where the very religion of the land is marked by 
the very first principles of Republicanism, how 
•could they withhold their influence and their 
energies from the conflict of conscious right 
against conscious but ill-directed might ? Though 
there are but few Scottish names of note conspicu¬ 
ous in the struggle, there are documents extant 
from which it is easy to discover that the Scottish 
element was strong, and that it was appreciated, 
too, by the aspirants after liberty in this land, even 
before the Declaration of Independence was thought 
of. There are few, if any, here who have not heard 
of the “Solemn League and Covenant.” % There are 
few here who do not understand it to have been a 
Scottish national compact, embodying great prin¬ 
ciples, but especially the great principles of civil 
and religious liberty. It is true we admit that it 
is, from first to last a Scottish document; that many 
of the best and holiest of the Scottish people were 
not ashamed to seal it with their blood, and many 








CENTENNIAL ORATION. 


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more of them with the loss of their estates, and exile 
into foreign lands. Bat there are two documents of 
American birth which are as conspicuous in the his¬ 
tory of this land as is the Solemn League and Cov¬ 
enant in the history of Scotland ; and though this 
last preceded the other two by a hundred and fifty 
years, yet, from a comparison of the “ Mecklenburgh 
Declaration” and the “ Declaration of Independence” 
with the Solemn League and Covenant of Scotland, 
one is constrained to say that only men acquainted 
with the latter could have given being and birth to 
the former ; and that not in spirit merely, but even 
in phraseology. The three documents, if printed 
in parallel columns, exhibit a homogeneity, not 
merely in spirit, but in expression and language, 
that force one to this conclusion. Then the Church 
of Scotland, it is to be remembered, was the living 
embodiment of a practical and active Republican¬ 
ism of the day ; and in its session, its Presbytery, 
its Synodical and General Assemblies, presented 
then, even as she presents now, in an ecclesiastical 
character, the Municipal Council, the State Parlia¬ 
ment, the Congress and the Senate, that have been 
adopted, and wrought out, and expanded in a polit¬ 
ical character in this land, until now the one limb 
of the great bow rests on the Atlantic, and the 
other on the shore of the Pacific. It is not to be 
disputed but that the model of this stupendous 
machine was framed originally in Scotland, and 
adapted, to a great extent by Scottish minds, to the 












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new and arduous field over wliicli it now stands forth 
embodied in the Union. 

That ecclesiastical Republicanism which, what¬ 
ever it may have accomplished for other lands, has 
largely aided in making Scotland what it is and 
Scotsmen what they are, is an inheritance which 
they appreciate above all others. It is not only 
sustained by antiquity, but in its rise and its pro¬ 
gress in the land of the mountain, it is associated 
in the memories of the living with struggles, and 
efforts, and sufferings, even unto the death, with 
exile, and scaffold, and stake, with boots, and 
thumbikins, and nameless tortures, with exposure 
in the glens, morasses and mountain caves, which 
have rendered almost every hill an altar, and every 
valley consecrated ground; that have thrown an air 
of romance a second time around her history, equal¬ 
ling, if not surpassing, that of the days of William 
Wallace, her hero guardian, and Bruce, her hero 
king. The very struggles to preserve first her inde¬ 
pendence as a kingdom, and then her religious 
liberty unbroken, continued as these were from age 
to age and from generation to generation, amid cold 
and hunger and all the privations incident to civil 
anarchy and misrule, have given our naturally 
poor and rugged country a niche in the temple of 
great nationalities, more honorable to itself and 
more profitable to the world than Greece obtained 
by all her victories, or Rome by her triumphs in 
art and arms. They have nourished among the 









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children of our people a spirit of sturdy inde¬ 
pendence which, when allied to intelligence and 
virtue, has enabled them to conquer difficulties 
by which others would have been daunted, and 
almost to invite peril for the mere pleasure of 
triumphing over it. They have largely tended to 
awaken intelligence, and to stimulate a noble 
and praiseworthy ambition. They have given 
to the Scot the consciousness of having a country , 
and have sustained in him in trying circum¬ 
stances the desire to live so as never to tarnish 
her well-won laurels, or to heap dishonor on her 
noble name. 

The character of the Scot is complex, and hence 
it is difficult to describe it. It is lacking in the 
warm impulsiveness of the Irish, and in the love- 
you-at-first-sight frankness of John Bull; and yet, 
when aroused and brought out, it exhibits more or 
less of these, with very much that is peculiarly its 
own. In it the strangest contrarieties seem to be 
co-existent, and to be mutually influential for weal 
or for woe. So cautious is he sometimes as not to 
discount a penny, quoting, in appreciation of his 
own sagacity, the oft-repeated adage, “ Take care of 
the pennies and the pounds will take care of them¬ 
selves;” and at the same time so bold and eagle¬ 
like in his conceptions as to found the grandest 
moneyed enterprise that the world has ever known— 
the “ Bank of Englandself-willed and self-reliant, 
and yet invariably subject to discipline; pre-emi- 








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nently attached to the land of his nativity, and yet j 
ready to adapt himself to the society and the cir¬ 
cumstances amid which he may be thrown. He 
is bent upon reforming abuses, and yet ever willing 
to epdure what cannot be amended, and to silence 
all useless regrets by the quaint asseverations, “ It 
canna be helped,” or “ I canna be fashed.” What¬ 
soever be his object, he throws himself into it, while 
he stands out the most unmoved of all the observers 
of its progress. His religion is an element of his 
life, and as life is composed of little things, even in 
little things the Scot is religious. Innovations upon 
some things he may admit, but of innovations upon 
his religion he is especially jealous. How inuch- 
soever these may appear to others matters of merest 
indifference, prejudices or whims, with him they are 
matters of holy principle, of which you cannot alter 
a single lineament without impairing the symmetry 
of the whole. 

Three powers there are, actively at work in the 
formation of the Scottish character, and these, along 
with the ancient story of his country, unite in form¬ 
ing the Scotsman of the day—the Pulpit, the School 
and the Fireside. 

When I speak of the pulpit, I mean not the desk, 
but its occupant—the living man that exemplifies 
from Monday to Saturday, full before the eye of 
childhood and age, the truth which he announces on 
the Sabbath. This is a power in Scotland that can¬ 
not be over-estimated, as to the influence which it 












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bears upon the rising mind. The minister there is 
indeed regarded as God’s Messenger and Ambassa¬ 
dor to man. As such he is listened to with reverence 
when he speaks, and always welcomed with respect. 
The aged renew their youth under his smile, and 
the young realize incipient manhood when his hand 
is laid with kindness on their head. The culture 
through which he has been trained for his high and 
honorable position, the experience of human nature 
in all its gradations which he has accumulated by 
intercourse with books and living men, his succes¬ 
sion in office to those who had been tried in the fur¬ 
nace of suffering, to men whoffiad been hurried into 
temporary exile or delivered into the hands of the 
executioners for no other crime than that of prefer¬ 
ring Christ to Caesar—all invest the pulpit in Scot¬ 
land with a peculiar sacredness and its living occu¬ 
pant with a peculiar power; and then the ancient 
doctrines of human depravity, and utter helplessness 
and Divine Mercy put forth for man’s recovery, 
proclaimed with unction by earnest men and owned 
and felt to be the true philosophy for man, wherever 
man is found ; and then the very forms and usages 
and laws by which the pulpit is hedged round, tend¬ 
ing to invite reflection and to stimulate earnest 
thought; and then the happy admixture of the cler¬ 
ical and the lay elements in the external develop¬ 
ment of their religion, the expansiveness and scrip¬ 
turalness of their church state, and its adaptation to 
the genius and desires of the people, all invest the 







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Scottish pulpit with a power, which in Scotland is j 
all but supreme. 

It is unnecessary here to dwell upon the excellen¬ 
cy of the Scottish pulpit, or to the high place assign¬ 
ed it by the unanimous consent of the learning and 
piety of Christendom. In deep research, in bold 
speculation, in manly eloquence, and, above all, in 
the application of religion to the lowliest engage¬ 
ments of common life, the Scottish pulpit stands 
confessedly without a rival. The charge of being 
so entirely doctrinal, which is often though ignorant¬ 
ly brought against it, constitutes in reality its high¬ 
est excellence as a moving and a moulding power— 
for it takes the highest standard of excellence, the 
highest model of loveliness of feature, and profundi¬ 
ty of thought and sympathy, and after this it strives 
to set the youthful mind a working, thus awakening 
thoughts of the supreme good, that are ever too 
deep for expression, engendering desires in the soul 
which nothing short of “the Infinite” can satisfy, 
and directing the opening bud of intellect at once 
towards the loftiest and most enlarging truths, thus 
tutoring the young mind to think, and to reason up¬ 
on purposes and characters and decrees, which, how 
remote soever they may continue from the gaze and 
the grasp of its awakened ambition, are nevertheless 
kept so prominently before it as ever more to exer¬ 
cise and direct it. 

A second power at work in the formation of the 
Scottish character is “ the school.” In nothing was 








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the wisdom of the early Scottish reformers more con¬ 
spicuous than in the ample provision they desired 
to make for the Godly upbringing of the youth of 
the land. Every parish had its school, every town 
its grammar-school, and every burgh its academy; 
while, above all these, and resting on a platform 
peculiarly their own, stood the four ancient uni¬ 
versities. Even if we lose sight of what they were 
two centuries ago, with their scanty supply of books 
and their narrow range of study; when the ABC, 
as in the earlier period of our own day, stood on the 
front page of a system of divinity as complete and 
thorough as any that ever passed from the intellect 
and heart of the best and most orthodox of theolo¬ 
gians, to wit, “ The Shorter Catechism.” Even if we 
lose sight of this, and along with it, of “The History 
of Joseph” and the “The Proverbs of King Solomon,” 
sewed in their fourpenny wrappers, we cannot lose 
sight—for the world that is and shall be will not allow 
us—of the men that these schools have aided in form¬ 
ing, the heroes in every department of life, the giants 
in industry and the giants in intellect, that have gone 
forth from their unboarded floors to battle with life’s 
perils, and to weave each one of them a chaplet for 
his country’s brow. Ye sons of Saint Andrew, ye 
know your position in life, ye know the high posi¬ 
tions of trust, and responsibility, and wealth to 
w T hich your energy and perseverance, under the 
blessing of God, have led you on ; and if ye would 
tell where the first beams of the noble superstruc- 





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ture were laid, where the keel of the vessel of your 
prosperity was hewn from the forest and fastened 
in its place, ye would point to the old parochial 
institutes of your fatherland—for there were the 
foundations of your fame, your honor and your 
integrity laid. Of your own native dourness , and 
of the honest, simple zeal of those old Scottish teach¬ 
ers, you never can lose the remembrance; while 
in connection with these latter, it is impossible for 
any one of us ever to forget the potent influence of 
the tawse. Strange combination, truly—language 
and a licking , teaching and a thrashing, a mistake 
in Grammar or in Syntax, and a wallop on the side 
of the head that would have consigned to sheets 
and blankets, for a fortnight at least, any of our 
modern offspring, and yet look at the fruits thereof: 
patient endurance, dogged perseverance, resolute 
self-denial, active industry, ever unwearied, an hon¬ 
orable independence and a comfortable old age. 
There was a simplicity about these old parish 
schools, a sincerity and a holy rectitude of aim and 
purpose that ought never to be forgotten by those 
that have in early life been partakers of their bene¬ 
fits. Many may think that their eyes have been 
opened to the wants, and imperfections, and sever¬ 
ities of the system, but it is yet to be seen whether 
a system less hearty and less strait will produce 
such men as have emanated from under the old 
regime. All honor, I say, to those humble and 
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thought, intelligence and decision; they happily 
commingle the dignity of the pulpit with the 
earnestness, and simplicity, and mutual confi¬ 
dences of the fireside, and prepare for the familiar 
conversation of the latter the important and weighty 
doctrines that are weekly promulgated from the 
former. 

But the Scottish fireside is assuredly the power 
that reduces to their primal elements, and that 
directs to their proper design and purpose the 
daily teachings both of the school and the pulpit. 
It is here that the lessons are prepared, and the 
mind and understanding of the little learner sifted, 
that the very words and sentences of the lesson are 
analyzed ; that the fable to be spelled and the pro¬ 
verb to be explained on the morrow are canvassed 
and reasoned out; that their application to the com¬ 
monest engagements of humble life is shown by the 
experience and sagacity of the family head; that 

| the account in Reduction, or Practice, or Proportion 
is figured out and finally settled; that the Geogra¬ 
phy lesson of the elder boy is watched and pondered 
by the younger, till the lesson itself is engraven on 
the memory by the questions which the little ones 
put, and by the answers that the father or the 
mother gives. And then the freedom and familiar 
chat, in which, however, the parental dignity is 
never lost, though the young ones seem to wax 
old, and the elder are not ashamed to renew their 
youth. And then the song, the heart-expression of 

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love or of patriotism, tlie Pibroch or the Coronach, 
in the language and the melody alike, the product 
of the soil, ever true to nature and to life, if not 
always fragrant with the spices of foreign art. And 
then the solemn close of all, the hour of household i 
worship, when the children of the house and the 
servants of the house, if such there be, assemble to 
close the day as at early morn they had assembled 
to begin it, with the hallowed utterances of praise 
and prayer; a season, this, w r hich the Bard of Scotia 
has painted in lines that cannot die wdiile sun and 
moon endure. 

Need we wonder that under such influences as 
these the Scot should grow up into youth, inured 
to habits of industry and activity, both of body and 
of mind; that tutored to think, he should thirst for 
knowledge; that familiarized to reason on the highest 
questions that man or angel can ever hope to solve, 
he should seek for a wider sphere for the consum¬ 
mation of his destiny than the narrow limits of his 
native land allow him ? We need never be afraid 
of his forgetting whence he came, unless that reason 
shall relinquish her throne. Go where he will, he 
is attended by the consciousness of having a country 
—a country that owned Wallace as its guardian and 
Bruce as its king, Knox as its fearless instructor, 
Scott as its unrivalled social dramatist, and Kobert 
Burns as its own peculiar bard. In the conscious¬ 
ness of this, and with mind well stored with tra 
ditions of hereditary renown, the Scot goes forth 










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27 


from his native land; and if the human destroyer 
shall spare him, he is sure to he heard from again. 
He never ceases to be a Scot. To what nation, or 
tribe, or people soever he may attach himself, they 
lose none of the fruits of his labors by his continuing 
his attachment to the land of his birth. This attach¬ 
ment is innate ; it cannot die. Think not, ye sons 
of America, that because of his being so much a 
Scotsman, he must needs be by so much the less a 
good American. Ho; the more faithful he is to the 
land of his birth, the more pure, and genuine, and 
generous his love for the land of his adoption. The 
eagle of America is not less the object of his admi¬ 
ration, because, and especially at such a time as 
this, his bosom swells with rapture at the remem¬ 
brance of Scotia’s rampant lion. Think not hardly 
of him, then, though thus he sometimes sings: 

“Scotland, thou land of all I love, 

Thou land of all that love me, 

Land whose green sod my youth has trod, 

Whose sod shall lie above me.” 

Count not this a mere caprice or whim that lapse of 
years or change of circumstances shall dissipate. 
Ho, it only shows that the very dust of Scotia is dear 
to him. The Christianity with which from his in¬ 
fancy he has been familiarized has taught him, in¬ 
deed, submission to the dictates and appointments 
of the Supreme will, but it has never sought to erad¬ 
icate the common instincts of his nature. It has 
encouraged him in the thought that friendly hands 













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should lay his ashes gently in the tomb, but it has 
lifted the aspirations, even of the lonely far above 
a thought so selfish as this. It has thrown the sun¬ 
beam of hope around the brow of the dying even 
when the snow wreath has been looked to as a shroud, 
or the trench of the enemy’s stronghold as a grave. 

It has made him contented to live where Providence 
may have called him, and to die where Providence 
may appoint. But—blessed be God—it has aimed 
no blow at that love of country, which is innate in 
all who have a country to live for, and especially a 
country of whose story they have no reason to be 
ashamed. Such is the story of our native land, or, 
if it be so, the land of our fathers. To the song of 
its victories and its reverses, of its defeats and its 
triumphs, the civilized world is no stranger. To¬ 
day, as of yore, the virtue and the perseverance of 
her sons are known and appreciated in every land. 

As if Scotland were too small for the genius of her 
children, and as if they regarded the wide world as 
a manor over which they had a call from heaven 
and a privilege to roam, there is no land in which 
you cannot find them and no society, which it is not, 
generally speaking, their endeavor to adorn. Away 
in northern lands and deep in the bed of stainless 
snow, whence the generous sympathies of Henry I 
Grinnell and the bold enterprise of Kane have failed 
alike to exhume them, lie the remains of my old 
school-fellow, Dr. Henry Goodsir. Another of them 
lies buried outside the walls of Guznee, in the gate 







CENTENNIAL ORATION. 


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of which he was mortally wounded with his coun¬ 
try’s banner in his hands. Still another fell at the 
head of his regiment before the bloody Redan of 
Sebastopol. A fourth lies buried in Kensal Green, 
a suburb of the British metropolis, and a fifth ad¬ 
dresses you now; and the only spot of ground upon 
which he looks as in a measure his own is a lot in 
the Cemetery of Greenwood. And this is but a 
sample of what many of us could detail; and if the 
graves of Scotsmen dot the great cemetery of the 
world, so you will find every where the living man. 
You will find him a trader among the Indians on 
the frontiers of the States. In 1811 and 1812, be¬ 
fore John C. Fremont was born, you might have 
found him bravely working his way among the 
passes of the Rocky Mountains, and never resting 
until he had raised the stars and stripes upon the 
sandy beach of Astoria in Oregon. And that same 
man you may find to night amongst us, a member 
and office bearer in the St. Andrew’s Society of 
Hew-York, the bold and keen-eyed Ramsay Crooks. 
You will find the Scot, with brave and buoyant heart, 
building his log-hut far in the forests of Canada, or 
guiding his raft under a summer sky down the 
rapids of the St. Lawrence and the St. John. You 
will find him in every city of this broad continent. 
His influence is felt on the markets of Hew-York 
and hence on the commerce of the world. You will 
find him lecturing in our universities and teaching 
in our colleges and schools, preaching in our pulpits 













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and sitting in the Directorate of our Railway and 
Commercial boards. He ploughs the waters of the 
Hudson with his keels of iron, and to his care and 
skill, thousands of American citizens annually en¬ 
trust not their property merely, but their lives. And 
no where, I am sure, on the great ocean thoroughfare 
does the traveller realize a greater consciousness of 
security than in the saloons and cabins of those 
huge leviathans, that hail from the city whose 
quaint and honored motto is, “ Let Glasgow flourish j 
by the preaching of the Word.” And not only on 
this western continent does the Scot secure for him¬ 
self a home. You will find him away among the 
isles of the Pacific, fanning himself under the shade 
of the mango, or instructing the Samoan and New r 
Zealander in the articles of the Christian creed; 
driving a trade with more than Yankee shrewdness 
among the tents of the Australian gold fields, if not 
himself with pick and spade and hammer in the 
mine. You will find him in China, with his opium 
and his tea chest, and in Hindostan with his Bible, 
the prince of missionaries; or with silver purchasing 
his indigo and silk, the prince of merchants; or his 
sword in his hand and the sage counsel on his lips, 
the guardian of native princes, the commander of 
native troops. And away up among the fastnesses 
of the heaven-piercing Himmalayahs, having doffed 
the garb of old Gaul, and donned the jewelled tur¬ 
ban and flowing robe of the Hindoo potentate, you 
will find him a chief and a ruler over a territory 









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almost equal in extent to tlie entire land of his 
birth. 

And then, crossing over to the shores of Africa, 
you will find him wherever white man has been— 
an engineer, and a captain in the cavalry, of Egypt, 
a financier and a farmer at the Cape of Good 
Hope. Yes, and you will find him in regions of 
that continent that the European has never trodden 
before him, telling us of lakes, and rivers, and peo¬ 
ples, and tribes that the European never dreamed 
of; and still the quiet, conservative, economic Scot. 

And if, in regard to space, the Scot be ubiquitous, 
equally true is it of him in all the departments of 
industrial life. It seems to be his ruling ambition 
to stand in the front ranks of his profession, what¬ 
soever or how humble soever that may be. Hence 
we need not be surprised at the advances so frequent 
in Scottish life. The shepherd, Ferguson, becomes 
the man of science, the ploughman’s son becomes 
the physician of his age, and the timid but thought¬ 
ful explorer of his mother’s tea-kettle becomes the 
inventor and the perfector of the steam engine, the 
friend and benefactor of the world. I feel that I 
have done but feeble justice to the cause that you 
have committed to my charge. The subject is one 
on which the largest intellects of the land might 
have been engaged, and for such I cannot conceive 
a more fitting theme than “ Scotland, the land that 
an enemy’s foot could never tread with safety.” 
But restricted as I have been as to time, I have 














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done what in the circumstances I could, and can 
only add that my heart goes out in unison with all 
that I have said. We have a country. In this, 
the land of our adoption, let us live in the light of 
its ancient faith and glory. We are not ashamed 
that its thistle is now linked—shall I not say irrevo¬ 
cably linked ?—with the rose of “ merrie England” 
and the shamrock of jolly, valorous Ireland. We 
are not ashamed of being one in that trinity of 
States whose Union Jack hovers over us to-night 
in happy harmony with the noble banner of the ! 
land of our adoption. Long may their folds be en- j 
twined in happiest, holiest fraternity. They are the 
representatives to the world of the shrines and the 
homes of liberty; and so long as these shall float 
in union over land or ocean, nations groaning under 
oppression may hope that the hour of their deliver¬ 
ance shall come, and heroes that live amid deep 
aspirations for their country, which their country 
is as yet unprepared to appreciate, may know that 
under either banner they may find what the dictate 
of the tyrant denies them—an asylum, sympathy 
and a home. 

This is, humanly speaking, the world’s great 
hope; and sustained as the unequalled vigor and 
energies of this Republic are, by the hereditary and 
well-tested valor and virtue of the British people, in | 
the grand enterprise of ameliorating the condition ot 
man, is it wrong to breathe the prayer in heaven’s , 
great, ever-open ear, that between them all jealousies 











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shall be for ever buried, all feuds forgotton, all rival¬ 
ries, save one, slain, and that one the blessed and the 
honorable rivalry as to which shall do the most for 
man ? Each may retain its own distinctive institu¬ 
tions, as best suited to the genius of its own people, 
and still the blessed work continue to advance. A 
Peabody from New-England may, in the halls of Old 
England, continue to propose, and every true-heart¬ 
ed Briton shall say Amen, “ The President of the 
United States and iNorrie, at the head of the 
sons of Saint Andrew, may with equal freedom, and 
on such festive occasions as this, within the citadel 
of Republicanism in this Western land, shout, and 
every true-hearted American shall say Amen, “God 
save Victoria —a pattern to mothers, the model of , 
a Queen.” 

































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